Diplomatic missions

Africa

Asia

Australia and Oceania

Europe

North America

South America

Belgium, Brussels, Permanent Representation of the Republic of Bulgaria

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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