Belgian police charged two senior EU foreign policy figures in a rare fraud investigation that has rocked Brussels.
The EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and a senior European Commission official, Stefano Sannino, were accused of graft over the approval of a training facility.
The two are well known among the EU’s inner circle, and one official told Politico the scandal would have a “disastrous impact on the [bloc’s] credibility,” while another told the outlet that the arrests were bad news in particular for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who appointed Sannino to a senior Commission role this year: “People who don’t like von der Leyen will use this against her.”