EU ex-top diplomat quits as college rector amid fraud probe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Mogherini has headed the College of Europe since 2020, and in 2022 also took the helm of the EU Diplomatic Academy.
55% : Mogherini, who was high representative for foreign affairs from 2014 to 2019 before becoming rector at the college, was arrested on Tuesday following raids at the elite school and on the premises of the EU's EEAS diplomatic service.
54% : Second suspect Sannino announced Wednesday that he was stepping back from his current top EU Commission job and would retire at the end of the month.
51% : The 52-year-old Italian was detained along with the school's deputy rector and Stefano Sannino, a senior EU official who was secretary general of the European External Action Service from 2021 to 2024.
40% : The allegations targeting a such high-profile former and current EU officials have rocked the bloc's governing institutions in Brussels.
39% : The EPPO is investigating suspicions of fraud related to an EU-funded training scheme for junior diplomats, known as the European Union Diplomatic Academy.
36% : Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini on Thursday resigned from her post as head of the College of Europe graduate school after being charged in a fraud probe.

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