Martin Selmayr changes jobs and resigns as EU ambassador in Vienna. The German-born headed the European Commission representation in Austria for four years. However, despite the change in position, he will remain with the Republic.
Martin Selmayr, Ambassador of the European Commission to Austria since November 2019, will take up a visiting professorship for European law at the Institute for Innovation and Digitalization in Law of the University of Vienna from February 1.
For six months, Selmayr will work there in research and education, mainly in the areas of EU digitalization legislation and EU sustainability legislation, the European Commission’s representation in Austria said in a press release on Wednesday.
Not the first professorship
“I am very much looking forward to researching and teaching on the most current issues of European law together with the excellent scholars from the University of Vienna,” Selmayr said, according to the broadcast. The German has already taught European law at the University of Saarbrücken and at the Danube University in Krems, and since 2022 he has been honorary scientific director of the Center for European Law at the University of Passau.
Selmayr headed the European Commission representation in Austria for four years. In 2019, he was appointed EU Ambassador to Austria by the then President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker.
Selmayr’s successor established
Juncker had sent his former chief of cabinet and secretary general of the European Commission, the highest representative of the European Commission to date since Austria’s accession to the EU, to Vienna. In the coming months, Wolfgang Bogensberger, Selmayr’s deputy for many years, will take over the leadership of the committee representation.
Source: Krone
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