Kuneva's team takes shape

Although the two new European commissioners from Romania and Bulgaria officially started work last week, Bulgaria's Meglena Kuneva, who holds the consumer affairs portfolio, is still without a head of cabinet. Expectations that Brit Helen Campbell from the external relations directorate-general would fill the post now appear unfounded. Kristian Hedberg, from Olli Rehn's cabinet, will be Kuneva's deputy head of cabinet. Other members of her cabinet include Teodora Petkova, who worked with the commissioner in Bulgaria, Belgian Sabina Zwaenepoel and Italian Christina Castagnoli who has been working for the European Parliament's civil liberties committee.