Germany’s Gunter Oettinger faced a grilling from MEPs earlier as he tries to convince them he is suitable for the post of budget and human resources commissioner<br /><br /> But the centre right politician is still dogged by criticism over derogatory remarks he made about Chinese people and gay marriage<br /><br /> “As far as the speech and the parts of my Hamburg speech at the end of October are concerned, I would like to repeat: It was and is not my intention to offend anyone with comments, and I expressly regret these expressions from then on,” he told the European Parliament.<br /><br /> Gaffe prone Oettinger is no stranger to courting controversy.<br /><br /> In 2013 he branded Italy, Bulgaria and Romania as “essentially ungovernable.”<br /><br /> And at a political event om 2000, he sang the first verse of his country’s national anthem, which is banned due to its Nazi connotations.<br />
