Slavi Binev was born on December 10, 1965 in Sofia. In 1984 he graduated from the French high school, and in 1990 - the National Sports Academy, majoring in tennis and boxing. His second subject is journalism. He is multiple tae kwon do champion of the country, and in 1992 he became European champion. Since 2007, he is a MEP, from the PP ATAKA. He is fluent in French, English, Italian and Russian. He is married, and he has 5 children and one grandchild.
- Mr. Binev what are the comments in the EP after the so - called variant "B" of the government for commissioner and for the submission of Rumyana Jeleva?
- Maybe we could avoid this entire thing with the plan "B". Maybe Rumyana Jeleva and the people who are close to her underestimated the situation, but the fact is that no one expected such aggression, especially from the Bulgarian side, which makes an extremely bad impression. This is not the right attitude in the European Parliament. And if someone intended to create a personal image on this - it is a big mistake. This is one of the so-called unforgivable things in the EP and discredits all the people who are involved in the conflict.
- The Chairman of the EPP and Barroso exposed their reputations, supporting Jeleva. Do you think that from now they will always going to have hesitations when it comes to Bulgaria?
- This is actually much more important problem. In Bulgaria we have always used to have a back up option. As Groucho Marx said: "These are my principles! If you do not like them, I have other principles too ..." . It is not always a good solution to demonstrate such attitude. I think that we lost the credit of trust. I'm not sure that promoting the plan "B" as much "better" right after the fail of plan "A" makes good impression. The name Ms Georgieva

Bulgarian MEP Slavi Binev (at the bottom right) was invited personally by the President Jerzy Busek at a luncheon on the occasion of the beginning of the Spanish EU presidency. The event was attended by Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Prime Minister of Spain Jose-Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Belgium Yves Lyoterm and all leaders of political parties in the European Parliament. The photo was made by the Protocol of the EP.

European parliament chief Jerzy Busek invited the MEP from "Ataka" Slavi Binev at a luncheon for the political elite of the parliament. The Bulgarian was again the only one of our representatives in Brussels, to whom he had made such an offer. This time the lunch was to celebrate the beginning of the Spanish EU presidency. The meeting are organized by the president for special occasions and are including only the chairmen of the political groups and senior management of the European Parliament. At the table of the President Busek, together with Slavi Binev weere the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, the Prime Minister of Spain Jose-Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who from the beginning of the year is also chairman of the Council of Europe.