{"id":56391,"date":"2025-11-27T09:09:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tunisia-summons-eu-ambassador-over-diplomatic-protocol-breach\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:09:26","slug":"tunisia-summons-eu-ambassador-over-diplomatic-protocol-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tunisia-summons-eu-ambassador-over-diplomatic-protocol-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia summons EU ambassador over diplomatic protocol breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the presidency said Saied delivered a &#8220;strongly worded protest&#8221; to Perrone over conduct deemed outside the &#8220;official frameworks recognized in diplomatic practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The move came after a meeting held on Monday between Perrone and Noureddine Taboubi, secretary-general of the Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT), the country&#8217;s largest trade union.<\/p>\n<p>Relations between the presidency and the UGTT have been strained in recent weeks after Taboubi announced that the union plans to organize a general strike to defend workers&#8217; rights amid rising living pressures.<\/p>\n<p>According to a separate statement posted by the EU delegation to Tunisia, Perrone reaffirmed during his meeting with Taboubi the EU&#8217;s readiness to continue dialogue with the UGTT and to support Tunisia socially and economically across various sectors.<\/p>\n<p>He also praised the UGTT for its role in promoting social dialogue and contributing to the country&#8217;s economic development.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98283\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/peron.jpg\" alt=\"Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday summoned Giuseppe Perrone, ambassador of the European Union to Tunisia, to lodge a strong protest over what he described as non-compliance with diplomatic protocols, the Tunisian presidency said on Wednesday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday summoned Giuseppe Perrone, ambassador of the European Union to Tunisia, to lodge a strong protest over what he described as non-compliance with diplomatic protocols, the Tunisian presidency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000098282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000098282,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/peron.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/peron.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/peron.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/peron.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/peron.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/peron.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000098282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56391"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56391"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}