Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee

Bulgarian Vice President-Elect Iliana Iotova has said work with civic organizations will be among her priorities when she takes up office in January.

She has also voiced intentions to finish her work at the EU Parliament, where she is the deputy head of the Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee, before assuming her duties.

Bulgarian and foreign MEPs from different political groups called for changes to the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM) which is currently in place for Bulgaria and Romania in the fields of judicial reform, corruption and organised crime.

Bulgaria is only a transit country for combatants of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organisation the European counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchoves and Europol head Rob Wainwright said in European Parliament.

Ruling Party leader and Party of European Socialists (PES) President Sergey Stanishev is to enter the Energy Committee at the European Parliament.

Bulgaria without Censorship (BwC) leader Nikolay Barekov, from the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) and GERB MEP Vladimir Uruchev are also due to join the Committee, the Bulgarian National Radio has reported.