Ekaterina Sakhareva

Ekaterina Sachariewa (2014)

Ekaterina Sachariewa at an informal Council meeting of the EU Foreign Ministers in September 2017 here with Council President Sven Mikser and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini

Ekaterina Spasova Getschewa-Sakhareva ( Bulgarian Екатерина Спасова Гечева-Захариева ; born August 8, 1975 in Pazardzhik ) is a Bulgarian politician. She was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development from 2013 onwards. On May 4, 2017, she was appointed Bulgarian Foreign Minister . As of January 1, 2018, she will be Chair of the General Affairs Council (Foreign Minister) during the 2018 Bulgarian EU Council Presidency .

education

Ekaterina Sachariewa was born in Pazardzhik in 1975. During her school days at the Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium in Pasardzhik, she acquired a fluent knowledge of German and graduated from the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv with a master's degree in law.

Career

She initially worked as a lawyer and in 2003 became a legal advisor to the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment. In 2007 she was appointed Director of the Legal, Administrative and Regulatory Services.

politics

In 2009 she became Minister for Regional Development under Rossen Plewneliew . When Plevnelev became President of Bulgaria , he appointed her first deputy prime minister for the period from March to May in 2013 under Marin Rajkov in the Rajkov cabinet .

She has been Minister for Regional Development since 2013 and was Minister of Justice from December 18, 2015 to January 27, 2017. On May 4, 2017, she finally became Bulgaria's Foreign Minister.

See also

• List of acting foreign ministers

Web links

Commons : Ekaterina Sachariewa  - Collection of Pictures

• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Minister of Foreign Affairs . Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ekaterina Zakharieva , President of the Republic, called in January 2014.
3. ↑ Visit of Ekaterina Zaharieva, Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development and Public Works, to the EC , March 2013, accessed January 2014.