by
Eric Maurice
Part
2 - 'Bending the rules'
By
elevating Selmayr to the position of secretary general, Juncker
rewarded him with a position that gives him the power to run the EU
executive's work in the years to come and be an influence on the next
commission president.
By
making the move a political issue, Juncker acknowledged and
strengthened the power of Selmayr - a eurocrat turned political
gambler.
At the
same time Juncker also - unwittingly - highlighted how far his team
has gone in disconnecting itself from what the commission is supposed
to represent: the general interest.
No one
doubts that Selmayr has the intellectual capacities and the political
flair to play an important role at the top of the EU.
So why
did he, with Juncker's approval, decided to be crowned in a few
minutes, in a meeting before which no EU commissioners but one knew
what was coming, in a procedure that followed the rules but in such a
secret and accelerated way that no one had a chance to apply for the
job?
"Selmayr
is good at bending the rules to his favour while sticking to the
letter of the rules," noted a commission official who, like
many colleagues, only found out about the move when the media
reported it.
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