When the euroblogger helps the Council press service

I just saw the press release on yesterday's EU Council which formally approved Uwe Corsepius as Secretary General of the EU Council from June 2011 until June 2015.

I have already written about Uwe Corsepius when he was supported by the European Council earlier this month.

At the time, I wrote the following paragraph:

Economist Uwe Corsepius is 49 years old and is the head of the European Policy Division in the German Chancellery - he is thus the EU advisor of Angela Merkel and was, inter alia, responsible the for negotiations ahead of the Berlin Declaration during the German EU Council Presidency that led to the Lisbon Treaty. Jan Seifert wrote about him at the time as being one of the "sherpas" of Angela Merkel (here's a photo of him at the time).

In the press release of the Council the information on Corsepius reads like this:

Mr Corsepius is currently head of the European Policy Division in the German Chancellery. He was inter alia responsible for negotiations on the 2007 Berlin declaration which led to the Lisbon Treaty. Mr Corsepius is 49 years old and has a doctorate in economics.

Looks like I was able to help...