Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission | EPA/Stephanie Lecocq
Juncker’s disappearing tweet
It came in response to the revelation that the Bulgarian commissioner resigned.
A tweet from the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s account noting his chief of staff’s appreciation of resigning Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva was deleted minutes after being posted on Friday afternoon.
It came in response to the revelation that the Bulgarian commissioner in charge of the budget and administrative portfolio resigned after being frustrated with the working methods of Juncker’s chief of staff Martin Selmayr.
Minutes later, the Commission’s deputy chief spokesperson, Mina Andreeva, posted a very similar tweet to the one deleted from Juncker’s account. Andreeva could not be reached for comment on Friday night.
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This got the Twitter-sphere talking.
Georgieva herself tweeted that Selmayr had been a “great partner to work with over the past two years.” He called her departure “a great loss” for the European Commission, but an honor for Europe to have her as CEO of the World Bank.
“The story that was put out is a non-story,” Georgieva told POLITICO on the sidelines of an economic conference she was attending in Bratislava on Friday.