Meglena Kuneva

Meglena Kuneva ( Bulg Меглена Кунева; born June 22, 1957 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian politician and former EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection.

Academic career

Kuneva graduated in 1981 to study law at the Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia from. In 1985 he was a PhD in the field of environmental law. After a assistantship 1988/89 she taught from 1992 to 1994 at the Free University of Burgas and at the New Bulgarian University. At the same time she worked for the Bulgarian National Radio as an editor and presenter.

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain Kuneva studied from 1981 to 1986 as a member of a prominent communist family at the universities in Washington, DC, Turku and Oxford in the fields of international relations, human rights and environmental law.

Political career

Meglena Kuneva is a member of the Liberal Party National Movement Simeon the Second, from 2009 National Movement for Stability and Progress ( NMSS ). In June 2001, she was deputy of the Bulgarian People's Assembly. In August of the same year, she was appointed Deputy Secretary of State; in this role, she was mainly responsible for the accession negotiations with Bulgaria the European Union. In May 2002, she was appointed Minister for Europe. On 26 October 2006 she was nominated for the created in the course of the EU accession of Bulgaria post of EU Commissioner for food safety; December 12, agreed to the European Parliament. So Meglena Kuneva could assume the office with the effect of EU membership of their country on 1 January 2007.

Besides Meglena Plugchieva Ivanova - Alexandrova, the Bulgarian ambassador in Berlin, Kuneva was diplomatically successful propagandist for the EU accession of Bulgaria.

In the European elections in 2009, she joined as a top candidate of the NMSS and was elected to the European Parliament; However, she decided to keep her position as Commissioner. In their place in Parliament Stanimir Ilchev moved by. The EU Commission Barroso II she no longer belongs to.

Honors

2004 drew Jacques Chirac Meglena Kuneva from the Order of the Legion of Honour. Moreover, she is the holder of the Order of Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain and the Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique of the Republic of Portugal ( 2002).

Private

Meglena Kuneva is the daughter of musician and film actor Stilian Kunew, who spent as a student along with his father for anti-communist activities for several years in a concentration camp Belene. Kuneva later married Andrei Pramow, a son of Sektretärs of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party (1962-1978); with whom she has a son.

• Curriculum vitae
• Report in the world of 27 November 2006: Kuneva - The charming workaholic

Joaquín Almunia | Jose Manuel Barroso | Jacques Barrot | Joseph Borġ | Stavros Dimas | Benita Ferrero- Waldner | Ján Figel (until October 2009) | Mariann Fischer Boel | Franco Frattini ( until May 2008) | Dalia Grybauskaite (until July 2009) | Danuta Hübner (until July 2009) | Siim Kallas | László Kovács | Neelie Kroes | Markos Kyprianou (until March 2008) | Peter Mandelson (until October 2008) | Louis Michel (until July 2009) | Andris Piebalgs | Janez Potočnik | Charlie McCreevy | Viviane Reding | Olli Rehn | Vladimír Špidla | Günter Verheugen | Margot Wallström

Supplements: Catherine Ashton ( from October 2008) | Karel De Gucht ( from July 2009) | Meglena Kuneva (from January 2007) | Leonard Orban (from January 2007) | Paweł Samecki ( from July 2009) | Maroš Šefčovič ( from October 2009 ) | Algirdas Šemeta ( from July 2009) | Antonio Tajani (from May 2008) | Androulla Vassiliou (from March 2008)

Richard Burke | Karl -Heinz Narjes | Grigoris Varfis | Stanley Clinton Davis | Christiane Scrivener | Emma Bonino | David Byrne | Markos Kyprianou | Meglena Kuneva | John Dalli | Tonio Borg

• Member of the European Commission
• Member of the Legion of Honour ( severity unknown)
• Of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Great Cross)
• Person (Sofia )
• Born in 1957
• Woman
• Bulgarian