“I Am Not Defending Myself, I Am Speaking With Facts”: Avramopoulos, Qatargate and Europe’s Institutional Stress Test
The former European Commissioner insists that every professional activity he undertook after leaving office had been formally approved by the European Commission. Denouncing what he describes as political and media exaggeration surrounding the case, Dimitris Avramopoulos raises a fundamental question: can European institutions retroactively challenge activities they themselves previously authorized?
