THEmost senior German in the European Commission has seen his hopes of becoming the EU's foreign policy chief dashed after he was photographed sunbathing naked with a senior female aide.
Gunther Verheugen, a European Commission vice-president, has been enmeshed in scandal after a German newspaper, Bild, threatened to publish photographs of him and Petra Erler, the head of his private office, unclothed on a Lithuanian beach.
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