On Tuesday 3 February, the European Commissioner for Trade, Maroš Šefčovič, denied any “direct or indirect contact” or “meeting” with the American financier Jeffrey Epstein, in a written statement sent by the European Commission’s Spokesperson’s Service.
The former candidate in the 2019 Slovak presidential election stressed that he had not “authorised, requested or agreed to anyone mentioning [his] name to Jeffrey Epstein, including Miroslav Lajčák”. “If Miroslav...