Meglena Kuneva
| Meglena Kuneva | |
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| Chairperson of Movement BG | |
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Assumed office December 2011 |
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| European Commissioner for Consumer Protection | |
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In office 1 January 2007 – 9 February 2010 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Markos Kyprianou (Health and Consumer Protection) |
| Succeeded by | John Dalli (Health and Consumer Policy) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
22 June 1957 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Political party |
Movement "Bulgaria of the Citizens" (2011-present) National Movement for Stability and Progress (2001-2011) Bulgarian Communist Party (before 1989) |
| Spouse(s) | Andrey Pramov |
| Alma mater | Sofia University |
| Profession | Lawyer Journalist |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva (Bulgarian: Меглена Щилиянова Кунева; born 22 June 1957) is a Bulgarian and EU politician.
Born in Sofia she is descended from a Catholic family from the town of Rakovski. Kuneva graduated in Law from Sofia University in 1981. In 1984 she became a Doctor of Law.[check year, 1986 according to other sources] She worked as a journalist for the Law Programme of the Bulgarian National Radio while being an Assistant Professor at Sofia University. In 1990 she took a job as Senior Legal Advisor at the Council of Ministers and held it until 2001. In the meantime Kuneva specialized in Foreign Affairs and Environmental Law at Georgetown University and other universities abroad.
In June 2001 she was elected a deputy (Member of Bulgarian Parliament) as a founding member of the Liberal Simeon II National Movement (NDSV) party. In August 2001 Kuneva left her position in the Bulgarian parliament because she was appointed Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chief Negotiator of the Republic of Bulgaria with the European Union. She represented the Bulgarian Government in the Convention on the Future of Europe (the European Convention), which designed the EU Constitutional Treaty (the European Constitution).
In May 2002 she was appointed Bulgaria's first Minister of European Affairs in the government of former Tsar Simeon Sakskoburggotski. She held that job even after the 2005 parliamentary elections, when NDSV became a junior partner in the Bulgarian Socialist Party-dominated coalition government of Sergey Stanishev – the only minister of the former cabinet to retain her post.
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