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Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union (EU) for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has announced the senior appointments in the European External Action Service (EEAS).
Releasing a written statement, Borrell has announced that Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, the current Ambassador of Germany to France and Monaco, has been nominated as the new Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey.
Christian Berger, currently the Head of the EU Delegation to Turkey, has been nominated as the Head of the EU Delegation to Egypt.
He was the chief adviser to MerkelNikolaus Meyer-Landrut was born in 1960 and In 1987, Meyer-Landrut joined the German foreign office under the third cabinet of the conservative chancellor Helmut Kohl. Between 1990 and 1993, he served in Vienna and advised on German foreign affairs in Brussels thereafter. From 1995 to 1999, Meyer-Landrut was deputy chief of the central ministerial office in Bonn, responsible for the Amsterdam Treaty and the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU. Between 1999 and summer 2002, Meyer-Landrut served as the press spokesperson of the Permanent Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EU under the social democratic–green Schröder administration. Between September 2003 and April 2006, he advised as leading official on European affairs in the Federal Foreign Office and joined the German Chancellery, advising on the same topic, in May of the same year. From February 2011 until mid-2015, Meyer-Landrut served as the chief adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel on European affairs. In July 2015, Meyer-Landrut succeeded Susanne Wasum-Rainer as Germany's Ambassador to France. * Source: Wikipedia |
was awarded his PhD in history, examining the role of France in German reunification, at the University of Cologne in 1988.(PT/SD)
