European Parliament

The voters from the 28 member states of the European Union (EU) cast their ballots for the European Parliament for four days between May 22 and 25. The results were somewhat expected, but shocking for many nevertheless.

Bulgarian MEP Mariya Gabriel, who won in May a second term in the European Parliament, has been elected Deputy Chair of the European People's Party (EPP) group.

The announcement was made in a message by the EPP Group on Wednesday, days after Gabriel became the head of GERB's delegation into the European Parliament.

The European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the EP refused to comment on the negotiations with the Bulgaria Without Censorship's Nikolai Barekov and Angel Dzhambazki. 

On Wednesday afternoon Novinite.com contacted James Holtum, ECR group spokesperson, regarding Barekov's claims that he and Dzhambazki will join the ECR group in the European Parliament.

Nikolay Barekov and Angel Dzambazki, who were elected MEPs in the European vote, will join the European Conservatives and Reformists group in the EP.

European Union governments are unlikely to reach a breakthrough this month on a proposal to make supply more flexible in the world’s biggest carbon market, according to Greece, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency.

SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, who was the European Left’s candidate for Commission president, is to meet several of his rival hopefuls in Brussels on Wednesday.

Bulgarian socialists' leader Sergey Stanishev cannot become MEP for a brief period and return to national Parliament afterwards, prof. Ekaterina Mihaylova believes.

The European People's Party and the Party of European Socialists will have to find a common language due to the makeup of the new European Parliament, according to Ivaylo Kalfin.

Sergey Stanishev, the leader of ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), said he would go to Brussels as MEP, but only for a month.

Speaking for public broadcaster BNR, he cited the "commitment" to propose current EP President Martin Schulz as a EU Commission President candidate of the S&D group within the European Parliament.

Bulgarians reaffirmed their pro-EU orientation President in an unambiguous manner at the European Parliament elections, according to President Rosen Plevneliev.

In a Friday statement on the EP elections on May 25, Plevneliev suggested that the results had shown yet again that national division only existed in the minds of separate political leaders.