France’s Thierry Breton abruptly resigned as the EU’s internal market commissioner on Monday and said in a pointed letter he would not seek a post in President Ursula von der Leyen’s new team of European commissioners. Breton said in his resignation letter posted on X that von der Leyen asked Paris to nominate another person in exchange for “an allegedly more influential portfolio for France” in the EU executive arm. Breton, who is the incumbent French commissioner, said this “political trade-off” was made “for personal reasons that in no instance” von der Leyen discussed directly with him. Th…