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Saying Goodbye

Fri, Aug 07 2009 09:41 CET

byThe Sofia Echo staff

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Saying Goodbye

Toon Streppel, left, and his wife Barbara Couwenbergh

Photo: Spartak Yordanov

Saying Goodbye

Left to right: Argentinian ambassador Geronimo Cortes Funes, Lebanese ambassador Micheline Abi Samra, Barbara Couwenberg, Claudia Couwenbergh, Indonesian ambassador Immanuel Inkiriwang, Swiss ambassador Thomas Feller, Norwegian ambassador Tove Skarstein, Toon Streppel, Fely Rose inkiriwang and Marion Krämer de Cortes Funes.

Photo: Spartak Yordanov

Saying Goodbye

Streppel and Couwenbergh with their daughter Claudia, second from right, and Bulgarian artists Larisa Ilieva, second from left, and Nikolay Panayotov, middle.

Photo: Rene Beekman

On August 4 2009, former head of the European Parliament Information office in Sofia, Toon Streppel, and his partner Barbara Couwenbergh said goodbye to friends and colleagues with a reception in the Radisson hotel in Sofia.

Three years in Sofia, during which Streppel set up and headed the information office, marked the end of Streppel’s 36 years of service with the European Parliament.

See also our interview with Streppel.

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Streppel has set up four information offices for the European Parliament. In retirement, it is culture and friends that still connect him to Bulgaria

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