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Mariya Gabriel has eight years of experience as an MEP, but has never held an executive office (Photo: European Parliament)

MEPs to grill youngest ever EU commissioner

Members of the European Parliament will grill their former colleague, Mariya Gabriel, on Tuesday (20 June) to see if she is fit for the job of European commissioner for digital economy and society.

Centre-right Gabriel was nominated last month by the government of Bulgaria to become a member of Jean-Claude Juncker's EU commission team, after budget commissioner Kristalina Georgieva left at the end of 2016 to join the World Bank.<...

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