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Bulgarian Foreign Minister elected vice president of European People’s Party

Thu, Dec 10 2009 14:36 CET

byPetar Kostadinov

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Bulgarian Foreign Minister elected vice president of European People’s Party

Roumyana Zheleva

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Roumyana Zheleva, Bulgaria's Foreign Minister and European Commissioner-designate, has been elected vice president of the European People’s Party (EPP), the largest political party in the European Parliament, news agencies said on December 10 2009.

Zheleva was one of the 10 EPP vice presidents to EPP president Wilfried Martens elected at the party's statutory congress held in Bonn on December 9 and 10 2009.

She got the votes of 218 delegates.

On November 27 2009, European Commission President Jose Barroso nominated Zheleva for the post of International Co-operation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Commissioner.

She will take up the post if the European Parliament votes in January 2010 to approve Barroso’s proposed new Commission.

When Zheleva's nomination for the EPP post was announced, reports in Bulgarian media suggested that this would contradict her European Commission position, allegedly because it was in breach of the European Commissioners' code of conduct.

Zheleva responded that this was not true because there were other European Commissioner-designates standing for party positions and it was up to Barroso to decide whether this was acceptable.

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Anonymous Valeri Thu, Dec 10 2009 21:30 CET
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"When Zheleva's nomination for the EPP post was announced, reports in Bulgarian media suggested that this would contradict her European Commission position.."

This is the type of controversy I wish for our Serb and Makedinian neighbors.
Forget about name or land issues - the real power is elsewhere these days....


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