Ms Penkova is from Bulgaria and a Member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament.As MEP she is Vice-Chair of the Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly and member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, the Committee on Regional Development and the Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee. She is also substitute member of the Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Delegation for relations with Japan and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
