Former UKIP leader — and Trump uber-fan — Nigel Farage | Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images | Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images Farage: ‘I want Martin Selmayr to become the most famous person in the whole of Europe’ Euroskeptic says promotion of Juncker’s chief of staff shows the EU in a bad light.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage said he was overjoyed at the promotion of Martin Selmayr to the European Commission's top civil servant.

The MEP said it showed the inner workings of the EU in an unflattering light.

“I want Martin Selmayr to become the most famous person in the whole of Europe. I want every voter across all the member states to understand how this place operates,” the Brexit champion told POLITICO in a coffee bar near the Council building ahead of today's summit of EU leaders in Brussels.

“Selmayr is an EU project fanatic and normally these stories stay in the confines of this little bit of Brussels. This story is now out all over Europe and I think it is wonderful.”

According to Farage, Selmayr “should not resign, stay, stay, stay; I want him there as long as possible, give him a pay increase.”

Earlier this month, Selmayr was promoted from being Jean-Claude Juncker's chief to staff to secretary-general of the Commission, its top civil servant. The lightning-quick elevation has been criticized for lacking transparency and for putting another German in a senior EU role.