FILE PHOTO: European Commission Secretary-General Martin Selmayr attends a weekly college meeting of the EU executive in Brussels, Belgium, January 23, 2019. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
STRASBOURG (Reuters) - The European Commission's top civil servant Martin Selmayr, whose sudden promotion to that post last year angered EU lawmakers and earned a rebuke from the European Ombudsman, will step down next week, a Commission spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Secretary-General Selmayr, a frank-speaking German lawyer, was Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker's chief aide before he was promoted in an abrupt two-step process.
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