<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">We are very sorry to see you go Georgios, it was always a great pleasure to work with you!  And don’t worry, this will never end, so if you have the opportunity to come back we will still be there plugging away!<div>Best of luck with that new challenge!<br><div>Stephanie Perrin<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Dec 18, 2020, at 08:55, TSELENTIS Georgios <Georgios.TSELENTIS@ec.europa.eu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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<strong><span style="color: #c75000;">EXTERNAL EMAIL:</span></strong></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear EPDP colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wish to inform you that I had to step down from the GAC as European Commission alternate representative due to my move to another unit in the European Commission dealing with Digital Connectivity in Europe and post
 COVID Recovery and Resilience Funds.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wish to warmly thank you all  for the intense but always professional and collegial way we worked the last years (!)  in the EPDP. I still remember the day I was tasked to represent the EC in the EPDP and thought with
 my naïve mind of engineer: “Sure, WHOIS just one simple Internet protocol…”. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I wish to specially thank the ICANN staff who does an amazing and professional job supporting us in the most efficient and kind way always with a smile
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span lang="EN-GB">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am sad to leave the group almost at the completion of this policy development process but I am confident you will be proud (…and relieved
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span><span lang="EN-GB">) upon its completion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hope to meet you again, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">until then keep safe and well,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Georgios Tselentis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-IE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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