Key officers
Rumen ALEXANDROV
Ambassador, Permanant Représentative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the EU
Petia VASILEVA
Minister plenipotentiary, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the EU
Georgi PENKOV
Minister plenipotentiary, Representative of the Republic of Bulgaria to the Political and Security Committee (PSC)
Viara Mileva
Secretary
COORDINATION COREPER-II
Natalia UZUNOVA
Minister plenipotentiary, ANTICI diplomat, COREPER-II Coordination, Institutional and horizontal issues, European Council
Georgi Dzhundzhurov
Second Secretary, Deputy ANTICI diplomat, COREPER-II Coordination, Institutional and horizontal issues, European Council
Pravdoluba Bozhinova
Assistant
COORDINATION COREPER-I
Victoria CHERNOOKOVA
First Secretary, MERTENS diplomat, COREPER-I Coordination
Dorita ZLATEVA
Assistant
COORDINATION COREPER-II/COREPER I/PSC
Adelina TOMOVA
Second Secretary, Coordination COREPER-II, COREPER-I and PSC, Staff Regulations
PRESS AND INFORMATION
Dimitar YAPRAKOV
Counsellor, Media and Public Relations
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Mila PETROVICH
Counselor, European Parliament
LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS
Tsvetko IVANOV
Counsellor, Judicial and Institutional Issues, Implementation of EU Laws, Breaches of EU law, Rule of Law, Translation Quality
Georgi MINKOV
Third Secretary, International Public Law, Court of Justice of the EU, Maritime Law, Countering Hybrid Threats
Anita STALEVA
First secretary, Enlargement, Consultation and Verification Mechanism for Bulgaria and Romania, EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey
Pavleta Zhelyazkova
Second Secretary, Working Party on the United Kingdom, The Three Seas Initiative, G7, G20
COMMON FOREIGN AND SECURITY POLICY/DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION/COPS COORDINATION
Kristina YOTOVA
Counsellor, NICOLAIDIS diplomat, PSC Coordination
Detelina IVANOVA
Assistant, PSC Coordination
Martin KOLEV
Third Secretary, Working Party Africa, Working Party Transatlantic Relations
Galin GALEV
Third Secretary, Working Party Asia and Oceania, Working Party Middle East and Persian Gulf, ASEM, ASEAN
Tsvetin SPASOV
Counsellor, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Eastern Partnership, OSCE, The Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), Black Sea Synergy
Elena KIRЕVA
Firts Secretary, Committee for Civilian Aspects of Crisis Management (CIVCOM), EU Maritime Security Strategy
Yovo PANCHEV
Third Secretary, Latin America, Middle East – Gulf countries
Youlian ATANASSOV
First secretary, Foreign Relations Counsellors (RELEX), Sanctions, Judicial and Institutional Issues
Yordan TOPCHIYSKI
Third Secretary, Sanctions
Veselin NIKOLAEV
Minister Plenipotentiary, Western Balkans, Enlargement, Council for Regional Cooperation
Mirena CHALEVA
Second Secretary, Cooperation for Development, 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Humanitarian Aid and Food assistance, The Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), UN
Yanitsa STOEVA
Third Secretary, Human Rights, European Endowment for Democracy, Council of Europe, UN, Non-proliferation and Arms Control
Boriana KITANOVA
Second Secretary, Terrorism – External Aspects
Lieutenant General Yavor MATEEV
Military Representative to NATO and EU, EU Military Committee (EUMC)
Colonel Tsvetomir NESHEVSKI
Deputy Military Representative to the EU, EU Military Committee (EUMC), General coordination and organization of the military aspects of the CSDP
Blagovest IVANOV
Counsellor, Politico-Military Group (PMG), General coordination and organization of the politico-military aspects of the CSDP
Lieutenant Colonel Milen GEGOV
EU Military Committee (EUMC), EU military missions and operations, Military concepts and doctrines
Lieutenant Colonel Atanas PETROV
EU Military Committee (EUMC), EU military operations, Military training, Rapid response forces, EU Battlegroups
Stefan NEYCHEV
First Secretary, Politico-Military Group (PMG), , European Defence Agency (EDA), Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP), European Defence Fund (EDF), European Security and Defence College (ESDC)
Rosen IVANOV
First Secretary, Politico-Military Group (PMG), European Defence Agency (EDA),SatCen,
TRADE POLICY
Vladimir VELKOV
Counselor, Head of sector Trade, Trade Policy Committee, EFTA, Dual-Use Goods, Relations with the EFTA States
Ivan RAYCHEV
Counsellor, Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, Trade and Development
Boris MIHAYLOV
Counselor, Trade Policy Committee
Svetlin STEFANOV
Counselor, Defense Industry (DIWP), Export control
FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC, MONETARY POLICY AND COHESION POLICY
Iani IVANOV
Counsellor, Head of sector Economic and Financial Affairs
ECOFIN Coordination, Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), International Monetary Fund (IMF), European Investment Bank (EIB), Multiannual Financial Framework, Coordination of State Aid issues
Snezhanka KOLEVA
Counsellor, Financial services, Banks, Measures against money laundering and terrorist financing
Pavel MANCHENKO
Counsellor, Customs matters, Customs Union
Todor VALCHEV
First Secretary, Financial services, Securities, Financial Instruments and Markets, Capital Markets Union, Insurance and Pension Insurance
Daniela VATRACHKI
Second Secretary, EU Budget, Multiannual Financial Framework, Own Resources, European Court of Auditors
Zhivko ELENKOV
First Secretary, Taxation, VAT and excise duties, Company Law
Kristina KRUSTEVA
Counsellor, Macro regional strategies, Structural measures, Outermost regions, Territorial cooperation, Danube Strategy, Regional Development, Committee of the Regions
Irena NIKOLOVA
Counsellor, Structural measures, Legislation in the field of Cohesion policy, European territorial cooperation, European Structural and Investment Funds, European Social Fund, European Court of Auditors
JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS
Petar RASHKOV
Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of sector Justice
Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
Lubomira DIMITROVA
Minister Plenipotentiary, Criminal Law, European Judicial Network in criminal matters, Judicial reform, Rule of law
Mitka ZAHARLIEVA
Counsellor, Civil law, e-law, Data protection, Civil and Commercial matters, Rule of law, Judicial reform
Irina KUZMANOVA
Second Secretary, Civil and criminal matters, Company law, Civil and commercial matters
Anelia IVANCHEVA
Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of sector Home affairs
Velizar ZHULEV
Second secretary, Drugs, Fight against fraud, Asylum and Migration, Readmission committees
Boyka ZAGOROVA
Second Secretary, Cooperation in the field of Internal Security, Police cooperation, Terrorism,
Iva ZAHARIEVA
First secretary. Schengen and asylum
Ivan DIMOV
Third secretary. Schengen and asylum
Georgi PETROV (accredited to the Delegation of the Republic of Bulgaria to NATO)
Coordination on counter-terrorism issues
Boyan Assenov (accredited to the Delegation of the Republic of Bulgaria to NATO)
Councellor, Civil Defence and Crisis Management
Gabriela TOLCHEVA
Third Secretary, Visa and Consular issues
Kiril TSEKIN
Third Secretary, Information Security Officer
Nadezhda EVANGELATOVA
First Secretary
AGRICULTURE AND FISHERIES
Snezhana BLAGOEVA
Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of sector Agriculture and fishery
Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), Common agricultural policy (CAP)
Zefira ESKIDAROVA
Counsellor, Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), Forestry, Agricultural statistics, Horizontal agricultural issues
Antoaneta GINOVA
Second secretary, Phytosanitary Issues, Food Safety, Pesticides
Georgi AGOV
Counsellor, Veterinary matters, Animal products and feed, GMOs
Georgi RALCHEV
First Secretary, Fisheries Policy, Committees on Fisheries
Petar TRIFONOV
Third Secretary, Financial management, control and audit of the agricultural funds, research / reconciliation procedures, Rural development
TRANSPORT, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND ENERGY
Maria KANTAREVA
First Secretary Air transport, Aviation safety, Aviation security, Single European Sky
Stefan STANCHEV
Minister Plenipotentiary, Water transport, Committee on Safe Seas and prevention of pollution from ships
Miroslava BORISSOVA
Counselor, Road and Rail Transport
Latzhezar VASILEV
Counselor, Telecommunications and Information Society, Postal Services
Ivan SPASOV
Counsellor, Nuclear energy, Nuclear safety
Polina PALIEVA
Counsellor. Conventional energy,
Daniel SHEKERLETOV
Third secretary, Transport, Intermodal Questions and Networks
Irina ALEXIEVA
Counsellor, Cyber diplomacy, Electronic government, digital rights
ENVIRONMENT
Radoslav LOZANOV
Firts Secretary, Climate change
Tedi GANCHEV
Second Secretary, Water management, Horizontal and Global Environmental Issues
EDUCATION, RESEARCH, YOUTH, CULTURE AND SPORT
Nevena IVANOVA
Second Secretary, Education Committee
Youmer KODJAYUMER
Third Secretary, Education, Research and Innovation
Georgi CHAPOV
Third Secretary, Sport and Youth
Zhivka HASKIYA
First Secretary, Culture, Audiovisual Policy and Copyright
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