The European Parliament voted on the new composition of the European Commission, reports BGNES.
Bulgarian Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva will be responsible for the "Start-ups, Research and Innovation" portfolio.
MEPs backed the composition of the next European Commission with 370 votes in favour and 282 against, which will allow the new members of the executive body to officially start work on 1 December.
The rest of the new Commission looks like this:
Teresa Ribera (Spain): Executive Vice-President for Clean, Fair and Competitive Transition
Hena Virkunen (Finland): Executive Vice-President for Technical Sovereignty, Security and Democracy
Stéphane Ségournet (France): Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy
Roxana Minzatu (Romania): Executive Vice-President for People, Skills and Preparedness
Raffaele Fito (Italy): Executive Vice-President for Cohesion and Reform
Kaja Kalas (Estonia): High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy
Magnus Brunner (Austria): Home Affairs and Migration
Hajia Lahbib (Belgium): Preparedness, crisis management. Equality
Dubravka Šuica (Croatia): Mediterranean
Costas Kadis (Cyprus): Oceans and fisheries
Josef Sikela (Czech Republic): International partnerships
Dan Jorgensen (Denmark): Energy and Housing
Apostolos Tsitsikostas (Greece): Sustainable transport and tourism
Oliver Varhei (Hungary): Health and animal welfare
Michael McGrath (Ireland): Democracy, justice and the rule of law
Valdis Dombrovskis (Latvia): Economy and productivity, enforcement and simplification
Andrius Kubilius (Lithuania): Defence and Space
Christoph Hansen (Luxembourg): Agriculture and food
Glenn Micallef (Malta): Intergenerational equity, youth, culture and sport
Wopke Hoekstra (Netherlands): Climate, zero consumption and clean growth
Piotr Serafin (Poland): Budget, anti-fraud, public administrations
Maria Luís Albuquerque (Portugal): Financial services
Roxana Minzatu (Romania): People, skills and preparedness
Maroš Šefčovič (Slovakia): Trade and economic security, interinstitutional relations and transparency
Marta Kos (Slovenia): Enlargement
Jessica Roswall (Sweden): Environment, water sustainability and a competitive circular economy | BGNES
