Ekaterina Zaharieva will most likely be the next European Commissioner of Bulgaria. The names of the new commissioners are expected to be announced on September 11.
Zaharieva entered big politics with the first GERB government, when she was deputy minister of regional development. She later moved to the Presidency after Rosen Plevneliev became head of state. Twice he was a minister in the official offices appointed by Plevneliev, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.
In the third government of Boyko Borisov, Zaharieva headed the Bulgarian diplomacy for 4 years.
According to bTV, Bulgaria will receive a regional management department.
The other candidate that Dimitar Glavchev's office submitted to Brussels is Julian Popov, nominated by PP-DB. With this, our country fulfilled the main requirement of the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that a man and a woman be elevated. I BGNES
