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The head of liaison office in Benghazi appointed

opening of the EU liaison office in Benghazi, around Catherine Ashton (Credit: European Commission)

(BRUSSELS2) Jeremy Nagoda should be the first head of the European Union's technical liaison office opened in Benghazi. Civil servant of the European Commission, of Polish origin but of Belgian nationality, he worked in particular at the DG Europaid, on relations with civil society and non-state actors, then on thematic operations (such as climate and development). , and until recently was at the unit in charge of centralizing the budget lines of theEuropean Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).

The delegation should be quickly reinforced by different experts in charge of the different sectors where Europe has promised its support: border management, reform of the security services, education, health, support for civil society... The agents of the delegation of the EU of Tunisia continue to follow the file of Libya of their delegation; in the absence of an EU delegation in Libya, it is indeed the Tunisian delegation which is in charge of Libya (*).

(*) Update. A first piece of information (coming from the diplomatic service) mentioned that the agents of the Tunisian delegation; This is not the case, one of the officials at the Tunis delegation told me. We never check enough 🙂

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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