By Georgi Gotev
My colleague blogger Emanuele Bonini writes that despite the terrible political situation in Italy, his compatriots can be proud that the new European Parliament President is Italian, and another Italian succeeded to be Vice President, even though he doesn’t belong to any political group.
Well done Italy! Bravissimi!
Bulgaria is the opposite case.
Sergei Stanishev didn’t become European Parliament President although his name was part of a package agreed by EU heads of state and government (he claims he withdrew his candidacy himself). In parallel 14 European Parliament Vice Presidents were elected, but there is no Bulgarian among them. Not even Stanishev.
Will Bulgaria be more successful in terms of Chairs of the 20 European Parliament Committees and sub-committees?
The MEPs elected in these Committees will meet on 15 July to elect a chair and up to 4 vice-chairs for each. You can make your bets, and to help you, all the Bulgarian names and the relevant Committee memberships are listed below:
GERB (EPP)
Asim Ademov – Member of the Committee on Culture and Education, substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Eva Maydell – Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, substitute member of the Committee on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Andrey Novakov – Member of the Committee on Regional development, substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism
Emil Radev – member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the Committee on Petitions, substitute member of the Commiteee on Legal Affairs
Union of Democratic Forces – elected under the GERB ticket (EPP)
Alexander Yordanov – Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Substitute member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and substitute member of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs
Democrats for Strong Bulgaria – elected under the ticket of Democratic Bulgaria (EPP)
Radan Kanev – Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, member of the Committee on Petitions, substitute member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety
Andrey Kovatchev – Member of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection, substitute member of the Committee on International Trade and the Subcommitee on Human Rights
DPS (Renew Europe)
Atidzhe Alieva-Veli – Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Ilhan Kyuchyuk –Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism
Iskra Mihaylova – Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, substitute member of the Committee on Development
ECR (VMRO)
Angel Dzhambazki – Member of the Committee on Legal Affairs, substitute member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism
Andrey Slabakov – member of the Committee on Culture and Education, substitute member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, and of the Committee on petitions
BSP (S&D)
Ivo Hristov – Member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, substitute member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and of the Committee on Fisheries
Tsvetelina Penkova – Member of the Committee on budgetary Control and of the Committee on Regional development, substitute member of the Committee on Internal market and Consumer Protection
Sergei Stanishev – Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, substitute member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Petar Vitanov – Member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism
Elena Yoncheva – Member of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, substitute member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.