site.btaPM Holds Talks with Three Nominees for EU Commissioner

Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev has held talks with the three nominees for EU Commissioner, the Council of Ministers press office told BTA Wednesday. The talks with the persons officially nominated so far by the political formations took place this morning. 

Glavchev has met with Ekaterina Zaharieva, who was nominated by GERB-UDF, as well as with Iskra Mihaylova, nominated by Delyan Peevski of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms. He conferred with Velislava Petrova, nominated by There Is Such a People, via videoconference. 

On Tuesday Dimitar Glavchev sent a letter to all parliamentary groups in the 50th National Assembly urging them to put forward nominations for a Bulgarian EU Commissioner. He said he expected the nominations by 29 August.