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Meglena Kuneva has won her seat as a MEP but could be sent again as EU commissioner. (Photo: European Communities, 2008)

Famous women conquer European Parliament

by Valentina Pop, Brussels,

EU commissioners, impressive justice campaigners or just young and splashy, they are the famous women who scored big in the European elections.

She always wears Dior and has made a name for herself as France's first justice minister with an immigrant background. Rachida Dati, the 43-year old single mother who went back to work five days after giving birth to her daughter, secured a safe victory for Nicolas Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The party scored 27.8 percent of th...

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Meglena Kuneva has won her seat as a MEP but could be sent again as EU commissioner. (Photo: European Communities, 2008)

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