Daniel Laurer

The Bulgarian Central Electoral Commission (CEC) adopted a decision distributing the mandates from the European Parliament vote among the participating parties. GERB will be represented by five MEPs, while the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS), "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB), and "Revival" each send three deputies to the European Parliament.

In a collaborative effort, a group of MEPs and MPs from Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania, including Daniel Laurer from "We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria" (WCC-DB), is urging the removal of border controls along the land borders between the three countries.

The European Commission announced that they interviewed the candidates for European Commissioner of the Bulgarian government - Daniel Laurer and Iliana Ivanova.

The Council of Ministers today discusses the proposal of candidates for European Commissioner. Two candidacies were presented, an opportunity provided in Ursula von der Leyen's letter. The two candidates are Daniel Laurer and Iliana Ivanova. Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov told the media after the extraordinary meeting of the government.

Iliana Ivanova, a member of the European Court of Auditors, is GERB's nominee for European Commissioner, said party leader Boyko Borissov.

Daniel Laurer will be one of the two candidates for Bulgaria's European Commissioner. The decision of Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov is for GERB-SDS to nominate a candidate as well.

So far, the coalition has not commented on who they will nominate. It is possible that they nominate Eva Maidel.

"We clearly saw an attack on the parliamentary republic. No one can afford to urge Bulgaria to not have a regular government, no one can put the budget and people's money in the background because of their personal power ambitions.

"Until next Tuesday, any names you hear are just rumors". Thus, the co-chairman of "We Continue the Change" Kiril Petkov commented on the sidelines of the parliament about the names of ministers in the future cabinet that appeared in the public space.

The uplifting and optimistic comments in the Republic of North Macedonia on the forthcoming appointment of Daniel Laurer from "We Continue the Change" as Bulgarian Foreign Minister were quickly replaced by disappointment after Laurer said it was unrealistic for the country to be allowed to start membership talks for the European Union by the end of the year.