EU Commission Denies Claims about VP Georgieva's Past

The European Commission has fully rejected claims in an investigation which recently claimed she had been an informant for Soviet-era State Security (DS) in Bulgaria.

The text, published by Republicans-linked Foreign Policy Research Institute, also alleged her family ties led to Multigrup, a once powerful and notorious conglomerate.

In a statement, the Commission says the claims are old and have been refuted one by one over time.

The investigation is described as an attempt at "tainting the name" of Kristalina Georgieva.

The text also contains criticism for both the UN and the EU, which, it says, fails to run proper background checks.

The issue of Georgieva's past was a small part of the domestic debate at the time Bulgaria was to pick its UN Secretary General nominee in February. Many critics of Irina Bokova, which was first nominated, had slammed her for her family's background, her father having been the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian Communist Party's mouthpiece, Rabotnichesko Delo, during the Cold War.