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Francisco Fonseca./ Photo: Youtube/European Commission in Spain

The Diplomat.13/07/2018

Francisco Fonseca has been appointed head of the Representation of the Commission in Madrid, a position that he had already held between 2009 and 2015 and that he will officially take up again on September 1, as previously revealed by The Diplomat.

Fonseca left his position in November 2015, after being appointed deputy director general of the State Office of Justice and Consumers of the European Commission. The headship of the community Representation in Spain was then in the hands of Aránzazu Beristáin, who held the position until the end of April, when he left it after retiring. Since then, the Representation of the European Commission in Spain has been led by the ‘number two’, the German Juergen Foeking.

Francisco Fonseca has worked since 1986 in the community Executive where, before his first stage in Madrid, he held different positions in Brussels, among them that of director of Civil Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, within the State Office of Freedom, Security and Justice, and head of office of the commissioner António Vitorino.

During his previous stage leading the Representation in Spain, according to the Commission, “he was able to implement an efficient policy of communication with the media and with representatives of the civil society organized in Spain, especially thanks to the organization in Cádiz, in September 2012, of the first Dialogue with the Citizens”.