20/09/2022 (Agence Europe) – Irishman Tony Murphy was elected president of the EU’s Court of Auditors on Tuesday, 20 September. He succeeds Klaus-Heiner Lehne, a German who has been in office since October 2016. Despite the newspaper Libération’s revelations concerning dysfunctions in the institution’s internal rules (see EUROPE 12899/29), the European Parliament had decided to grant discharge for this institution’s implementation of the 2020 budget (see EUROPE 12945/8). Tony Murphy, 60, has been a member of the Court of Auditors since 2017 and will take up his post on 1 October. Members of the college elect the president of the Court [of Auditors] from among themselves as a primus inter pares (‘first among equals’) for a renewable three-year term. He is notably responsible for the institution’s corporate strategy, planning, performance management, media relations, and internal audit. (LC)