{"id":519563,"date":"2025-10-22T12:14:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519563\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:14:10","slug":"germany-backs-selmayr-for-top-brussels-job-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519563\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany backs Selmayr for top Brussels job \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selmayr was chief of staff to former Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker before becoming secretary-general of the EU\u2019s executive arm until 2019. Since then, he has been posted to Rome as the bloc\u2019s ambassador to the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>Selmayr met with Kallas\u2019 top team in recent weeks, amid the creation of an influential new role in her European External Action Service that would see him represent the diplomatic corps in talks with lawmakers and national governments.<\/p>\n<p>However, Commission officials have moved to derail that appointment, instead proposing that Selmayr be offered a role as the EU\u2019s special envoy for religious freedom \u2014 a far less sensitive and influential post that would nonetheless facilitate his return to Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>A German conservative with deep institutional ties, Selmayr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/monster-at-the-berlaymont-martin-selmayr-european-commission-jean-claude-juncker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">garnered a reputation as the \u201cMonster of the Berlaymont\u201d<\/a> during his time in the Commission\u2019s Brussels headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>His 2018 promotion to oversee the Commission drew condemnation from the European Parliament, which said the process failed \u201cto give other possible candidates within the European public administration the possibility to apply.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selmayr was chief of staff to former Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker before becoming secretary-general of the EU\u2019s executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,804,299,1824,19133,2596,60597,19276],"class_list":{"0":"post-519563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-eu-affairs","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-jean-claude-juncker","13":"tag-kaja-kallas","14":"tag-martin-selmayr","15":"tag-vatican"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115417767190714092","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}