By Georgi Gotev There are strong indications that Bulgaria’s Mariya Gabriel will get the Education, Youth, Sport and Culture portfolio, previously held by the most invisible of all commissioners - Hungary’s Tibor Navracsics. The first…
By Krassen NIkolov European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen unexpectedly visited Bulgaria last week. She discussed the future portfolio of Bulgarian Commissioner Mariya Gabriel with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Sofia insists that the Bulgarian…
By Georgi Gotev On 8 July Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that back in Brussels, the city where she was born, she met her “wonderful – and very European – transition team for the first…
By Georgi Gotev reporting from Strasbourg At least four of the five Bulgarian MEPs from the S&D group will vote on Tuesday (16 July) against Ursula von der Leyen to become Commission President, as proposed…
By Krassen Nikolov Part of the EPP group has serious doubts about Ursula von der Leyen’s nomination for President of the European Commission and may not support it, the Bulgarian MEP Radan Kanev told this…
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