The Diplomat
The Council of Ministers yesterday approved the appointment of new Spanish ambassadors to Greece, the Netherlands and Sudan, as well as the appointment of the new secretary general of the European Union, as The Diplomat reported.
The embassy in Athens will be headed by Carles Casajuana, replacing Enrique Viguera. He has served as director of the Prime Minister’s International Department under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, as well as ambassador to the United Kingdom, Malaysia and the EU’s Political and Security Committee.
Meanwhile, Consuelo Femenía has been appointed ambassador to The Hague, where she will take over from María Jesús Alonso, for whom the government has requested the Argentine authorities’ approval for her appointment as head of mission in Buenos Aires. Consuelo Femenía was until a few weeks ago ambassador to Malta.
To head the embassy in Sudan, the government appointed Isidro González Afonso, who was deputy secretary general of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and was previously posted to Cyprus, Morocco and Jerusalem. He will fill the vacancy left by Alberto Ucelay when he was appointed Director General for the Maghreb, Mediterranean and Middle East.
Finally, the Council of Ministers appointed María Lledó, who had been Director General for the Coordination of the Internal Market and other Community Policies since the end of September, as the new Secretary General of the EU. She replaces Pascual Navarro, who was appointed Secretary of State for the EU and will be the first woman to occupy a post whose main task is to coordinate preparations for the Spanish Presidency of the EU in the second half of 2023.
