Career
From the start of the 1990s until 2006, Slavi Binev had been one of the main shareholders in R – System Holding AD. The company included over 100 companies and for many years dictated the modern trends in service, entertainment, construction, investments and security. R – System was ranked 34th by The Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in terms of profits 2003. Along with Attack"s two other MEPs, he sat with the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (Institute of Transportation Studies) group.
This group collapsed in November 2007, leaving Attack as non-inscrits members.
He was Attack"s candidate for Mayor of Sofia in 2007. At the 2009 European election, Attack lost one Member of the European Parliament, but Binev retained his seat as the second of two elected for the party.
Binev and Attack remained as non-inscrits members. On 22 April 2012, he founded his own party: People for Real, Open and United Democracy.
Binev joined the EFD group in the European Parliament in 2012, this information was announced on his website:
Binev is a strong interest in energy policy issues and addresses the plenary session of the European Parliament on energy affordability and the European budget in the October 2013 plenary session.
In January 2009, he initiated a call for European action to address serious in of the Bulgarian energy sector after the accession of the country to the European Union. He opposes the European Commission"s proposals to cease production at the “Kozloduy” power plant in the country or over-reliance on energy imports. Instead favouring a diverse energy mix
In March 2013, Binev attended the United Kingdom Independence Party"s spring conference in the Devonshire city of Exeter, United Kingdom. Addressing delegates, Binev joked that UKIP Deputy leader Paul Nuttall did not have to wear a bullet proof vest on his visit to Sofia and thanked him for his visit on behalf of the EFD. Binev"s PROUD was dissolved in August 2013, merging into the NFSB. In late November 2014, Binev was appointed as chairman of the Commission for Culture and Media (Bulgarian: Комисия по култура и медии), which led to serious criticism and protests from actors, theatre performers, television and radio journalists as well as other intellectuals, mainly due to what was regarded by them as his lack of familiarity with and interest in cultural issues and cultural politics.
On 8 December 2014, Binev resigned from his position because of the societal discontent.