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Ilyana Malinova Iotova (Илияна Малинова Йотова, born on 24 October 1964 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian politician and Member of the European Parliament. She is a member of the Coalition for Bulgaria, part of the Party of European Socialists, and became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Bulgaria to the European Union.

She currently is a full Member of the Committee on Fisheries, the Committee on Petitions, and on the delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly as well as being the Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee Vice- Chair on the delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

She is also substitute on the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, on theCommittee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs,and on the delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union.

Education

1989: Bachelor and Master's degree in Bulgarian and French Philology from St Clement of Ohrid University, Sofia.

2007: Specialist studies at the Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA), Strasbourg.

Career

1990- 1997: Bulgarian National Television: editor and presenter of the news programme 'Novini'; director of the News and Current Affairs department

1997- 2005: Director of the press service of the Bulgarian Socialist Party

Since 2000: Member of the Supreme Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party

2005- 2007: MP in the National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria

Since 2007: Member of the Socialist Group in the European Parliament

External links

Official website of Ilyana Iotova

European Parliament biography of Ilyana Iotova