EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting l-r: Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB), Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Rumiana Jeleva MEP, Chairwoman of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, and Hartmut Nassauer MEP (Germany), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Opening session of the meeting l-r, from 3rd from the left: Hartmut Nassauer MEP (Germany), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB), Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Damir Polancec, Croatian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Struan Stevenson MEP (United Kingdom), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, and John Biesmans, Deputy Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting r-l: Hartmut Nassauer MEP (Germany), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Damir Polancec, Croatian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, a Member of the Croatian Delegation, and Daniel Gros, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Nickolay Mladenov MEP (EPP-ED, Bulgaria) (on the left), and Luchezar Ivanov MP (Bulgaria)

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting r-l: Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB), and Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting l-r: Dushana Zdravkova MEP, Vladimir Urutchev MEP and Nickolay Mladenov MEP (all three EPP-ED, Bulgaria)

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting l-r: Margie Sudre MEP (France), Reinhard Rack MEP (Austria) and Gerardo Galeote MEP (Spain), Chairman of the Committee on Regional Development in the European Parliament, all three Heads of their national delegations of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting l-r: Struan Stevenson MEP (United Kingdom), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Ivo Prokopiev, Chairman of the Confederation of the Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria, Iliana Ivanova, Sofia Municipal Council, Member of the Committee on Budget and Finances, Garabed Minassian, Senior Research Fellow, Doctor of Economic Science, Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and former Vice-Chairman of the Bulgarian National Bank, and Werner Langen MEP, Head of the German Delegation (CDU) of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting l-r: Daniel Gros, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, Damir Polancec, Croatian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Hartmut Nassauer MEP (Germany), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB), Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, John Biesmans, Deputy Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group, Struan Stevenson MEP (United Kingdom), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Ivo Prokopiev, Chairman of the Confederation of the Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria, Iliana Ivanova, Sofia Municipal Council, Member of the Committee on Budget and Finances, Garabed Minassian, Senior Research Fellow, Doctor of Economic Science, Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and former Vice-Chairman of the Bulgarian National Bank, and Werner Langen MEP, Head of the German Delegation (CDU) of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting l-r: Struan Stevenson MEP (United Kingdom), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Ivo Prokopiev, Chairman of the Confederation of the Employers and Industrialists in Bulgaria, Iliana Ivanova, Sofia Municipal Council, Member of the Committee on Budget and Finances, Garabed Minassian, Senior Research Fellow, Doctor of Economic Science, Institute of Economics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and former Vice-Chairman of the Bulgarian National Bank, and Werner Langen MEP, Head of the German Delegation (CDU) of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (on the right), with the Children's Choir of the Bulgarian National Radio and the choir leader Hristo Nedyalkov

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Othmar Karas MEP (Austria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (2nd from left), Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group (2nd from right), Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB) (on the left), and Hristo Nedyalkov, leader of the Children's Choir of the Bulgarian National Radio

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (in the middle), l-r: Marian-Jean Marinescu MEP (Bulgaria), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Boyko Borisov, Leader of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB) and Mayor of Sofia, Martin Kamp, Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group, Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB), and Gerardo Galeote MEP (EPP-ED, Spain), Chairman of the Committee on Regional Development in the European Parliament and Head of the Spanish Delegation of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (2nd from right), l-r: Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Boyko Borisov, Leader of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB) and Mayor of Sofia, and Martin Kamp, Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Boyko Borisov, Leader of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB) and Mayor of Sofia

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (3rd from right), (l-r) Zsolt László Becsey MEP (EPP-ED, Hungary), Hugues-Arnaud Mayer, Vice-Chairman of the MEDEF (The French Business Confederation), Jerzy Buzek MEP (EPP-ED), former Prime Minister of Poland, Marian-Jean Marinescu MEP (Romania), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group, Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Boyko Borisov, Leader of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB) and Mayor of Sofia, Martin Kamp, Secretary-General of the EPP-ED Group, and Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB)

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, giving an interview to Bulgarian media

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting r-l: Marian-Jean Marinescu MEP (Romania), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek MEP (EPP-ED), former Prime Minister of Poland, Hugues-Arnaud Mayer, Vice-Chairman of the MEDEF (The French Business Confederation), and Zsolt László Becsey MEP (EPP-ED, Hungary)

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Joseph Daul MEP (France), Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament (in the middle) (l-r) Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group, Boyko Borisov, Leader of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB) and Mayor of Sofia, Mina Petrucci, EPP-ED Group Secretariat, and Tzvetan Tzvetanov, Chairman of the Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria Party (GERB)

EPP-ED Group Bureau Meeting Marian-Jean Marinescu MEP (Romania), Vice-Chairman of the EPP-ED Group in the European Parliament, and Rumania Jeleva MEP, Head of the Bulgarian Delegation of the EPP-ED Group