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Budgetary control MEPs to probe appointment of Commission secretary-general #Selmayr

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The Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, will be asked to provide further information on the appointment of his new Secretary-General Martin Selmayr (pictured).

MEPs will put a series of questions to Juncker on Tuesday (27 March). Günther Oettinger, the commissioner in charge of budget and human resources, will be quizzed on Selmayr’s appointment as Commission Secretary-General, as of 1 March, at a public hearing to be held by the European Parliament Budgetary Control Committee on 27 March, political group co-ordinators have agreed.

Background

The procedure used to appoint Selmayr lacked integrity and transparency, said several MEPs in a 12 March plenary debate in Strasbourg. Further to the plenary debate, Parliament’s Conference of Presidents (president and political group leaders)  asked the Budgetary Control Committee to draft and table a resolution, to be put to a vote at a forthcoming plenary session in Strasbourg (provisionally 19 April), together with the vote on the budgetary discharge to the Commission.

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