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Von der Leyen and Macron in backroom deal to force out top EU commissioner

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Thierry Breton attacked the EU Commission president’s “questionable governance” in a letter he posted on social media on Monday .

He claimed Mrs Von der Leyen offered France a more influential role in her new executive in exchange for getting rid of him.

It comes amid horse-trading over jobs in the new EU executive, which has been dominated by her struggle to name a gender-balanced “college” of commissioners.