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A very EU coup: Martin Selmayr’s astonishing power grab

10 March 2018

9:00 AM

10 March 2018

9:00 AM

Martin Selmayr has always dreamed of being known beyond the Brussels bubble. His wish has now been granted, albeit in not quite the way he might have hoped. It has arrived in the form of a brilliantly executed coup that has handed this 47-year-old German bureaucrat near-total control of the EU machine.

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