Marija Gabriel
Marija Ivanova Gabriel ( Bulgarian Мария Иванова Габриел , nee Maria Ivanova Nedeltschewa ( Bulgarian Мария Иванова Неделчева ), alternatively Mariya Gabriel transcribed; * 20th May 1979 in Gotse Delchev ) is a Bulgarian politician of the party GERB and EU Commissioner for Innovation and youth . She speaks Bulgarian, English, French and Russian.
Marija Nedeltschewa studied at the Paisii Hilendarski University in Plovdiv , where she completed a bachelor's degree in Bulgarian and French philology. She then completed a master's degree in “ Comparative Politics and International Relations ” at the University of Bordeaux in France . She then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Political Science in Bordeaux .
After founding the Bulgarian party GERB in 2006, she became the chairman of the youth organization. Until 2008 Nedeltschewa was head of the department "Projects and Public Relations" at the Institute for Economic Policy in Sofia.
In the European elections in Bulgaria in 2009 it was as a deputy for the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats in the European Parliament elected.
In 2012 she married François Gabriel, an employee of French MEP Joseph Daul , and took the surname Gabriel.
In May 2017, Jean-Claude Juncker announced that Gabriel would succeed Günther Oettinger as EU Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society . She took office on July 10, 2017. In the von der Leyen Commission she became EU Commissioner for Innovation and Youth on December 1, 2019 .
Web links
- Profile and résumé at the European Commission
- Entry on Marija Gabriel in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
- Short biography (Bulgarian) on www.personi.dir.bg, July 23, 2009
- Short biography and interview (Bulgarian) with Marija Nedeltschewa on www.politika.samo.bg, July 23, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Предложили брак на Мария Неделчева пред пленарната зала , 24chasa.bg, July 7, 2012
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Neue-EU-Digitalkommissarin-Bulgarin-Gabriel- Follow-auf-Oettinger- 3715128.html
- ↑ Report on heise.de from July 11, 2017 , accessed on July 11, 2017
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SURNAME | Gabriel, Marija |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gabriel, Marija Ivanova; Nedeltschewa, Marija Iwanowa (maiden name); Nedelcheva, Mariya Ivanova; Неделчева, Мария Иванова (Bulgarian); Gabriel, Mariya |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian politician, Member of the European Commission, MEP |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Goze Delchev , Bulgaria |