Military religious order awards

Military religious order awards
EU Commissioner
with Maltese Cross



06-02-2009
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Bulgarian European Commissioner Meglena Kuneva ©, Chinese Vice Minister Wei Chuanzhong (L) and US acting Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission Nancy Nord ® hold a press conference on November 17, 2008 after an EU-China-US trilateral summit at EU headquarters in Brussels. Getty Images

European Commissioner Meglena Kuneva has been honoured with The Maltese Cross at an official ceremony in Sofia.

The ambassador of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to Sofia, Camillo Zuccoli personally presented the Cross to Kuneva.

The leader of the National Movement for Stability and Progress party, Simeon Saxe-Coburg, Ombudsman Ginyo Ganev and the recently re-elected Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank, Ivan Iskrov, were present at the ceremony.

Kuneva received the award on behalf of the Grand Master of the order Fra’Matthew Festing for her helping with the development of European and Christian values and for her efforts as European Commissioner.

Kuneva is the No.1 candidate on the National Movement for Stability and Progress ticket for the coming European Parliamentary elections together

At present the organizations of the Order of Malta are spread over five continents and include over 100 000 volunteers and medical staff.

The Maltese cross or Amalfi cross is identified as the symbol of an order of Christian warriors known as the Knights Hospitaller or Knights of Malta. It was originally the symbol of Amalfi, a small Italian republic of the 11th century, but has come to be identified with the Mediterranean island of Malta. It is considered one of the National symbols of Malta.