Stefan Feller, new head of the Eupol Bosnia mission

(B2) It is a German, Brigadier-General Stefan Feller who will take over the management of the police mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUPM). He succeeds Brigadier General Vincenzo Coppola. His appointment comes at a pivotal time. Since there is more and more talk of reducing and changing the format of the other EU mission in Bosnia, the military operation "Althea" for stabilization and security.

Return to the field

Feller began his career in the police of the Land of North Rhine-Wetsphalia, as an investigator (in 1979) and ending as director of operations (in 2000). His last eight years he devoted to crisis management operations, particularly in the Balkans. he thus served in UNMIK (the United Nations mission in Kosovo), from 2000 to 2004 (as deputy head then head); the mission then had 4500 police officers from 53 countries. He then moved to Brussels, where he was appointed head of the "Police" unit at the Council of the European Union (2004-2007), responsible for advising European officials on police missions. And last year, he took over as head of the operations unit at the CPCC – the civilian crisis management staff. It is therefore a return to the field for this 50-year-old policeman.

(Nicolas Gros-Verheyde)