EU's former chief diplomat quits College of Europe role after being named in fraud probe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Federica Mogherini said she was stepping down as Rector of the College of Europe, based in the Belgian city of Bruges, and as of the European Union Diplomatic Academy.
54% : As the EU's top diplomat from 2014 to 2019, Mogherini was responsible for supervising the Iran nuclear talks, leading efforts to improve long-strained relations between Serbia and Kosovo, and a host of other foreign policy and security issues.
52% : Mogherini's successor as EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, ran the EEAS at the time the project was awarded.
48% : The arrest and resignation of the former Italian foreign minister could tarnish the EU's image on the world stage as it seeks to assert influence in negotiations aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.
48% : Mogherini was detained for questioning Tuesday, along with a senior college staff member and a senior official from the European Commission, after authorities in Belgium raided the offices of the EU diplomatic service in Brussels and the college in Bruges.
46% : Revelations of a cash-for-influence scheme dubbed Qatargate, involving EU lawmakers, assistants, lobbyists and their relatives, emerged in 2022.
42% : In March this year, several people were arrested in a probe linked to the Chinese company Huawei, which is suspected of bribing EU lawmakers.
39% : BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union's former foreign policy chief resigned on Thursday as head of a prestigious institute of European studies after becoming embroiled in a fraud investigation over a training program for junior diplomats.
35% : They were later released as they were not considered a flight risk, The European Public Prosecutor's Office ordered the raids over suspicions about the awarding of a project for the European Union Diplomatic Academy, which is a nine-month training program for junior diplomats across the EU's 27 member countries.

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