Ex-EU official Mogherini quits college post amid fraud probe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Mogherini, 52, served as the EU's top diplomat from 2014 to 2019, before becoming rector of the college.
64% : The probe is related to an EU-funded training course for diplomats, known as the European Union Diplomatic Academy.
62% : The EU diplomat training program was awarded to the College of Europe by the EEAS during 2021-2022.
58% : In 2022, she took over at the EU Diplomatic Academy.
54% : Mogherini and two other suspects were briefly detained on Tuesday during police searches of the EU's diplomatic service in Brussels, and the College of Europe campus in Bruges.
48% : " Mogherini was detained along with the College of Europe's deputy rector and senior EU officials Stefano Sannino, who was secretary general at the EEAS from 2021 to 2024.
47% : Federica Mogherini, the former foreign policy and security chief of the European Union (EU), on Thursday resigned from her role as rector of the College of Europe.
44% : " The EPPO is responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to judgment crimes against the financial interests of the EU.
40% : Federica Mogherini has resigned as the rector of the elite College of Europe, two days after the EU's former top diplomat was detained by police in Belgium as part of a corruption investigation.

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