Corina Crețu
Corina Crețu | |
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European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms | |
In office 1 November 2014 – 1 July 2019 | |
President | Jean-Claude Juncker |
Preceded by | Johannes Hahn |
Succeeded by | Johannes Hahn (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Bucharest, Socialist Republic of Romania | 24 June 1967
Political party | Social Democratic Party (Before 2019) PRO Romania (2019–2024) Independent (2024-) |
Spouse |
Ovidiu Rogoz (m. 2012) |
Education | Bucharest University of Economic Studies |
Corina Crețu (born June 24, 1967 in
Political career
Crețu studied at the
In 1996, she became a member of the
Between 2000 and 2004, Crețu was Presidential Advisor, Presidential Spokesperson[1][4][10] and Head of the Public Communication Department[1] during Ion Iliescu's second mandate as Romanian president.
In 2000 she was elected Deputy in
In 2005, Crețu was appointed a member of the Romanian parliamentary delegation to the
In 2013, she was elected Vice-President of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD).[1][13]
Crețu announced on 17 January 2019 that she would be a candidate in the
She joined Victor Ponta's PRO Romania in March 2019.[9]
Personal life
Her father, Traian Crețu (1937–1995), was Professor of Physics at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[17] Her mother, Verginia Crețu is a child development psychologist and was a professor at the University of Bucharest.[18]
In 2012, Crețu married Ovidiu Rogoz, a Romanian businessman, at the New Church of St Spyridon in Bucharest.[10][19]
Personal e-mails Cretu had exchanged with then U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell were accessed by the hacker Guccifer, who broke into Powell’s personal email account and posted a link to some of the correspondence on Powell’s Facebook page.[20] Powell said in a statement that he had stayed in touch with Cretu by email since stepping down as secretary of state in 2005, and that "over time the emails became of a very personal nature, but did not result in an affair.”[21] He added that "those types of emails ended a few years ago. There was no affair then and there is not one now.”[21]
Honours
Cavaler, Order of the Star of Romania (2013)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Agerpres (29 May 2014). "2014EP BIOGRAPHY MEP Corina Cretu". Archived from the original on 17 December 2015. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "Corina Cretu". Huffington Post. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Corina Cretu". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ a b EurActiv.com (2 October 2014). "EPP holds Damocles' sword over Crețu". Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Mihai, Cătălina (10 September 2014). "Corina Crețu, desemnată comisar european pentru Politică Regională. Componența completă a viitoarei Comisii Europene". Mediafax. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Tudor, Iulian (3 October 2014). "Corina Crețu, printre premianții Comisiei Europene". RomaniaTV. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "Commission: Corina Cretu n'a pas vraiment crevé l'écran (in French)". Lalibre.be. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "Corina Cretu gets positive opinion after EP hearing". The Diplomat Bucharest. 2 October 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ a b "Corina Creţu s-a înscris în Pro România". www.bursa.ro. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Dadacul, Liviu (10 September 2014). "BIOGRAFIE: Cine este Corina Creţu, noul comisar european pentru Politică Regională". Mediafax. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "EC president Junker prefers Corina Cretu for Regional Policy European Commissioner mandate". Romania-Insider. 2 September 2014. Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "Corina Creţu, observator OSCE la alegerile din Bosnia/Herțegovina (in Romanian)". Amos News. 29 September 2006. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
- ^ "Victor Ponta, la TVR, după reconfirmarea în funcţia de preşedinte al PSD: Greul acum începe (in Romanian)". Stirile TVR. 20 April 2013. Archived from the original on 18 January 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ Redacția (2019-01-17). "Oficial: Corina Crețu va candida din partea partidului lui Victor Ponta la europarlamentare". G4Media (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Europarlamentare. Țuțuianu: Victor Ponta și Corina Crețu deschid lista Pro România". www.dcnews.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-01-28.
- ^ "Victor Ponta, Corina Creţu şi Mihai Tudose deschid lista candidaţilor Pro România pentru europarlamentare". www.digi24.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 2019-03-28.
- ^ Father, Corina Cretu's personal website, 10 July 2008 (in Romanian)
- ^ "There Is No Alternative to Community Based Care", speech by Corina Cretu at the 2014 Annual Conference Eurochild, 28 November 2014
- ^ "Corina Crețu s-a căsătorit cu omul de afaceri Ovidiu Rogoz" ("Corina Cretu married to businessman Ovidiu Rogoz"), DC News of Râmnicu Vâlcea, 10 November 2012 (in Romanian)
- ^ "Colin Powell denies affair after emails are hacked by mysterious 'Guccifer'" by Jonathan Easley,The Hill, 1 August 2013
- ^ a b "Colin Powell forced to deny affair with Romanian diplomat" by Raf Sanchez, The Daily Telegraph, 2 August 2013
External links
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- European Parliament profile
- European Parliament official photo
- Creţu's Official website and blog
- Corina Creţu, The British War Against Immigrants is Anti-European, Unjustified and Wrong, Huffington Post, 2 June 2014.
- (in Romanian) Corina Creţu at the Romanian Senate site
- (in Romanian) Corina Creţu at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site
- www.elections2014.eu