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BRUSSELS – Bulgaria’s candidate for European Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva shall be heard by the European Parliament’s Committee on Trade, Analysis and Power on November 5. That is indicated within the schedule for the upcoming exams of the candidates for European Commissioners, distributed right this moment by the EP.
Earlier, EP spokespersons clarified that the hearings will final for 3 hours. It’s envisaged that the preliminary approval of the candidates shall be by a majority of the votes within the examination committees, and in case the required help shouldn’t be achieved, MEPs have the fitting to ask extra written questions and schedule a repeat listening to of 1 and a half hours.
The hearings of the opposite candidates for European Commissioners will happen from November 4 to 12. The EP plans to vote on the composition of the brand new fee at its session from November 25 to twenty-eight.
Bulgaria was the one EU member state that fulfilled the EC’s advice to appoint two candidates for European Commissioner – a person and a lady. Among the many nominations proposed by all parliamentary teams, the Bulgarian authorities selected and nominated Ekaterina Zaharieva and Yuliyan Popov for European Commissioner, nominated respectively by GERB-SDS (“European Folks’s Social gathering”) and “We Proceed the Change – Democratic Bulgaria” (“Renew Europe”/EPP).
After the interviews with each candidates, EC President Ursula von der Leyen requested that Appearing Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev formally designate Ekaterina Zaharieva as the only Bulgarian candidate. This grew to become a reality on September 9, finishing the process for nominating a candidate for European Commissioner from Bulgaria.
Ekaterina Zaharieva was proposed by EC President Ursula von der Leyen for European Commissioner for Startups, Science and Innovation.
Ekaterina Zaharieva has been Deputy Prime Minister for Judicial Reform and Minister of Overseas Affairs (2017 – 2021), Minister of Justice (2015-2017), in addition to Deputy Minister of Regional Improvement and Public Works (2009 – 2012) in three governments of Boyko Borissov. She has additionally been a part of two caretaker governments in addition to a Member of Parliament from the forty fourth Nationwide Meeting to the fiftieth Nationwide Meeting. Zaharieva was additionally the Chief Secretary of President Rosen Plevneliev (2012-2017) and the top of his workplace. (10.10.2024).
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