Bulgaria’s President Rosen Plevneliev today (5 August) put forward Kristalina Georgieva for a second term as Bulgaria’s European commissioner, a decision announced at the same time as he unveiled a caretaker government.
Georgieva has won widespread respect for her performance as European commissioner for humanitarian aid and emergency response and is regularly touted as a possible successor to Catherine Ashton as the European Union’s foreign policy chief.
Georgieva had struggled to secure the nomination from the previous Bulgarian government, a loose coalition led by the Socialist party, in part because she was put forward for the Commission in 2009 by the centre-right …read more
Source: European Voice
