Welcome to In Conversation, the regular podcast of InCompass. Go to InCompass-Hevon

for free access to all our podcast to date. This is Paul Adamson and I'm in conversation with

Eva Madel. Eva Madel is a Bulgarian member of the European Parliament.

I'd like to start Eilfme by going back five and a half years when you were freshly elected

to the European Parliament for the first time, one of the youngest members of the European

Parliament.

What was it like when you first arrived in the European Parliament as a new MEP?

Did it sort of match your expectations?

I might have been a new MEP but the Parliament was not a new MEP did it sort of match your expectations?

I might have been a new MEP but the Parliament was not a new place to me.

So this helped a little bit my impressions and I was I have to say in some way I felt prepared what it is to be expected from my job. But comparing it to today, the Parliament has drastically

and perhaps even in a way dramatically changed. Even in those five years? Even in just five

years. I think ten years ago the Parliament was similar to what it was five years ago,

but today it's very different.

So the question is, am I prepared for that new parliament, actually?

And I think the most important thing for one is to get very easily adapted to the new realities. The world is facing and the parliament and the

European institutions have to face as well.

Well before coming to what your own personal objective and ambitions are for your next current

five-year mandate as an MEP, can I ask for your take on the current kind of political composition of the

Parliament? There's been a lot of discussions, certainly in the few weeks after the European

elections last May, about this new fragmented European Parliament with lots of anti-European

faction within it, making life more difficult, both for MEPs themselves and for the outside

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