The Eu­ro­pean Union Del­e­ga­tion to Trinidad and To­ba­go has an­nounced the ap­point­ment of Am­bas­sador Ce­cile Tassin as the new Eu­ro­pean Union Am­bas­sador to Trinidad and To­ba­go. Am­bas­sador Tassin pre­sent­ed her cre­den­tials to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo, ORTT, fol­low­ing a cour­tesy call to the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

Am­bas­sador Tassin suc­ceeds Am­bas­sador Pe­ter Cavendish, who re­tired at the end of Au­gust. She brings three decades of ex­pe­ri­ence with­in the Eu­ro­pean Union. She has held po­si­tions at the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion head­quar­ters in Brus­sels and in EU Del­e­ga­tions world­wide, in­clud­ing Africa and the Caribbean.

Be­fore her cur­rent as­sign­ment, Am­bas­sador Tassin served as Ad­vi­sor to the Africa Di­rec­tor in the Di­rec­torate-Gen­er­al for In­ter­na­tion­al Part­ner­ships of the Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion in Brus­sels. She has ex­pe­ri­ence in in­ter­na­tion­al re­la­tions and diplo­mat­ic prac­tices.

Am­bas­sador Tassin is orig­i­nal­ly from France. She holds a Mas­ter’s De­gree in Com­par­a­tive Pub­lic Law from Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty, Paris, and a Mas­ter’s De­gree in Eu­ro­pean Po­lit­i­cal and Ad­min­is­tra­tive Stud­ies from the Col­lege of Eu­rope, Bruges.

The EU Del­e­ga­tion, un­der Am­bas­sador Tassin’s lead­er­ship, will fo­cus on ad­vanc­ing mu­tu­al in­ter­ests be­tween the Eu­ro­pean Union and Trinidad and To­ba­go. Col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­forts are ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue in ar­eas of po­lit­i­cal di­a­logue, trade, and de­vel­op­ment co­op­er­a­tion.

Am­bas­sador Tassin met with of­fi­cials at the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs to dis­cuss pri­or­i­ties and on­go­ing ini­tia­tives. The del­e­ga­tion looks for­ward to strength­en­ing re­la­tions and main­tain­ing open chan­nels of com­mu­ni­ca­tion be­tween the Eu­ro­pean Union and the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go.