COREPER, the executive body of the Council of the European Union, voted on September 19 in favor of Romanian Laura Codruta Kovesi’s candidacy for the position of chief prosecutor of EU’s newly created Public Prosecutor’s Office, G4media.ro reported. This opens the way for her formal endorsement for the job, according to Romania-Insider.com.
Kovesi, the former head of Romania’s Anticorruption Directorate (DNA), received 17 out of the 22 votes in COREPER, which is made up of each country’s permanent representatives.
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