This is a public event. You can register through reply email to Mrs. Carla Veltkamp.

The Clingendael Institute organizes a lecture by H.E. Mr. Daniel Mitov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria. The topic of the address is 'The future of the European project - a view from Sofia'.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session and is moderated by Mr. Jan Marinus Wiersma, Senior Visiting Fellow of Clingendael.

Daniel Mitov graduated from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", specializing in Political Science. He has participated in the international exchange programmes of Marshall Memorial Fund (German Marshall Fund of the US), and the “Programme des personnalites d’avenir” of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He specialized in Political skills at the Center for Continuing Education at New Bulgarian University.

In 2002, Daniel Mitov worked at the Political Academy for Central and South East Europe as part of the Bulgarian School of Politics team and Razum magazine. In 2006, he became Executive Director of the Democracy foundation, and then Vice President of Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) party. He has participated in the establishment of Bulgaria for the Citizens political party.

Since the autumn of 2010, he worked for the US National Democratic Institute(NDI) in Iraq, where he was Program Manager of the Political party development program. As an official NDI representative, he has also worked in Brussels, Libya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, Yemen, Tunisia and others.

Programme
10.00  Welcoming guests and registration with coffee/tea
10.30  Opening words by Mr. Jan Marinus Wiersma
10.40  Start of the lecture by H.E. Mr. Daniel Mitov
11.15   Q&A session, moderated by Mr. Jan Marinus Wiersma
11.30  Closure, followed by refreshments.

The full text of the invitation can be downloaded below.