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New Bulgarian EU Commissioner Iliana Ivanova makes first official working visit

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Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariya Gabriel will meet today with the Commissioner for Innovation, Scientific Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Iliana Ivanova. This is the first official working visit to Bulgaria of the new commissioner after she took office as a member of the European Commission.

Iliana Ivanova takes the office after Mariya Gabriel left it and will serve as Commissioner until the end of October 2024, when the mandate of the current European Commission expires. Before that she was a member of the European Court of Auditors in Luxembourg, an EPP MEP and vice-chair of the Committee on Budgetary Control and of the EP Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis.




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