Former European Commissioner and Minister of Foreign Affairs Maria Gabriel may become the Deputy Secretary General of NATO. The information about her candidacy has been confirmed by both Sofia and Brussels, reported a BGNES reporter.
Maria Gabriel has enough international experience to occupy such a responsible position. She is well known in the Euro-Atlantic capital of Brussels, where she began her career as an MEP in the ranks of the largest European People's Party, and then became a European Commissioner in the commission chaired by Ursula von der Leyen.
In 2023, she gave up her high position in the European Commission to participate in the formation of a government between GERB and PP-DB, in which she took the post of foreign minister and deputy prime minister.
The most serious success she achieved at the head of Bulgarian diplomacy was the removal of the Netherlands' veto for our country's entry into Schengen.
It is a Dutchman who will be the next secretary general of the alliance. Former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was recently elected and will succeed Jens Stoltenberg in the post later this year. It is expected that Maria Gabriel will be included in Rutte's team, which also received Sofia's support for Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty.
If Gabrielle occupies this responsible position, she will be one of the highest-ranking Bulgarians on the international stage, and this will be of great benefit to our country at this difficult time, when two major wars are raging near Bulgaria.
Sofia needs more serious representation at the summits of both NATO and the European Commission in order to be able to implement policies in the interest of Bulgaria and Europe. I BGNES
