Markus Pieper is resigning from the office of the EU Commission's representative for small and medium-sized companies. This was announced by the authority headed by Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels.
There will now be a new edition of the selection process, but only after the European elections in June. A majority in the EU Parliament had this suspicion. Now the person concerned draws conclusions.. Is there nepotism in Ursula de Leyen's EU Commission? A majority of MPs voted against it. The reason for their move was that the MPs cited doubts as to whether Pieper's appointment took into account "the principles of performance, gender balance and geographical balance" The Commission President was indirectly accused of having specifically chosen a party friend in Pieper. The background to the allegations is, among other things, that in the initial phase of the application process, two applicants from Sweden and the Czech Republic were rated better than the 60-year-old Pieper, who comes from Münsterland.