European Union Commissioner for Enlargement, Marta Kos, is being accused again in her home country, Slovenia, of being a collaborator with the UDB, the infamous Yugoslav secret police, in the 1980s.
The echoes of these accusations have even reached Brussels. Slovenian MEP Romana Tom? announced that she has sent the European Commission documents that she claims prove Kos’s involvement in the espionage structures of the former Yugoslavia, demanding an official investigation into her credibility.
These accusations, which Kos has described as “disinformation”, have returned on the eve of the March 22 elections in Slovenia, where the center-left coalition of Prime Minister Robert Golob that supports him has been put in a difficult position, facing the right-wing opposition.
On Monday, the commissioner is expected to appear before the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, where she will have to defend her personal integrity before discussing the bloc’s enlargement plans.
Marta Kos is part of the centrist Renew Europe group. Before taking up the important post at the European Commission, she had a long career in diplomacy, serving as Slovenia’s ambassador to Germany and Switzerland, as well as holding senior positions in the fields of communications and trade in her country.