The French president had long since put forward his choice for France’s commissioner in the EU executive — Thierry Breton, the floppy-haired Frenchman in charge of the EU’s internal market, who’d made a name for himself as the bloc's most colorful and controversial commissioner.

The European Union's top regulator of the bloc's 27-country internal market, France's Thierry Breton, quit Monday accusing European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen of "questionable governance.

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Thierry Breton posted resignation letter on X accusing European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen of acting against him.

Thierry Breton of France stepped down as a member of the European Commission on Monday and will no longer be his country's candidate for the next EU executive body, an unexpected twist in the highly political EU power transition.

Von der Leyen offered France a more powerful job ‘as a political trade-off’ in return for replacing Thierry Breton

The French candidate for the next European Commission and current EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton resigned in a suprise move on Monday by posting a letter on X. Breton claimed in his letter that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen asked France to nominate another person in exchange for "an allegedly more influential portfolio for France" in the commission.

France picked Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne as its new candidate for the next European Commission as the incumbent, Thierry Breton, abruptly quit on Monday with tough words for the EU's re-elected executive chief Ursula von der Leyen.

High-profile official was withdrawn by France in return for ‘allegedly more influential portfolio’, he said in resignation letter