Corina Crețu

Corina Crețu (2014)

Corina Crețu (born June 24, 1967 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian politician . She was a member of the European Parliament from 2007 to 2014 and again since 2019 . From 2014 to 2019 she was EU Commissioner for Regional Policy in the Juncker Commission . She was a member of the PSD in Romania until January 2019 , since then the PRO , at European level the PES .

Political career

Crețu studied planning and economic cybernetics at the Bucharest Business Academy , which she graduated in 1989. She then worked as an economic analyst and programmer in the machine factory in Blaj and as a journalist for the newspapers Azi , Cronica Română and Curierul Național .

From 1992 to 1996 she was an advisor to the Romanian President Ion Iliescu . In 1996 she joined the Partidul Democrației Sociale din România (PDSR), whose chairman was Iliescu and from which the Partidul Social Democrat (PSD) emerged in 2001 . Crețu worked as head of the party's press office and as deputy chairman of the national women's organization. In 2000 she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, but resigned to work again as an advisor to Iliescu, who had a second term as President from 2000 to 2004. During this time she headed the department for public communication in the presidential office. She was a member of the Romanian Senate from 2004 to 2005 and was a delegate to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly . In April 2005 she was elected deputy chairman of the PSD and remained so until December 2006.

Crețu was sent by the Romanian parliament as an observer to the European Parliament during the accession phase from September 2005, where she joined the social democratic group. From the time Romania joined the European Union on January 1, 2007, she was a full member. She was a full member of the European Parliament. It was confirmed in the rescheduled European elections in Romania in November 2007. For the legislative term ending in 2009, she was a member of the Development Committee and the Delegation for Relations with the United States. From 2008 to 2010 she was a member of the Parliamentary Network of the World Bank .

After her re-election in 2009 , she was Vice-Chair of the Development Committee for the 2014 legislature and continued to be Delegate for relations with the United States. In addition, she was a member of the special committee on the financial, economic and social crisis from 2009–11. From 2011 she was again deputy chairwoman of the PSD. From 2012 to 2014 Crețu was vice-chair of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats (S&D). After the 2014 European elections , in which Crețu defended her seat, she was elected one of the 14 Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament. She was also a member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs , was a delegate for relations with Israel and in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean .

For the post of Romanian EU Commissioner, the government of Victor Ponta (PSD) had initially nominated the previous Agriculture Commissioner Dacian Cioloș , who was to get a second term. However, since, according to the proposals of the 28 member states, the quota of at least nine women in the commission was not met, the Romanian government opted instead for Crețu, which - unlike the independent Cioloș - also belonged to the ruling party PSD. The opposition protested against Crețu's appointment because the Romanian parliament had not been heard. She resigned from the European Parliament on October 31, 2014 and took up office the next day as Commissioner for Regional Policy in the Commission of Jean-Claude Juncker .

In January 2019 Crețu left the PSD and became a member of the PRO România party of former Prime Minister Victor Ponta (who had left the PSD a year earlier). She lamented her party's skeptical change of course, which no longer corresponds to her “European values”. Crețu had been repeatedly attacked by party colleagues for criticizing the PSD-dominated government of her home country for the poor use of EU funds in her position as EU Commissioner. As a PRO candidate, she was re-elected to the European Parliament in the 2019 European elections. There she rejoined the S&D group and is a member of the Budgetary Control Committee, the Committee on Regional Development and a delegate in the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Private life

In 2013, intimate e-mails that Creauschtu had exchanged with former US Secretary of State Colin Powell in the period 2005–11 became public . In November 2011 she described him as "the greatest love" of her life, but wrote that she had now found a "realistic love". Powell denied an affair with Crețu and described the relationship as friendly. In October 2012 Crețu married the businessman Ovidiu Rogoz.

Web links

Commons : Corina Crețu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Corina Crețu in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Corina Crețu - Curriculum Vitae. In: Ziare.com , October 8, 2007.
2. ^ CV Corina Crețu , European Commission.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Corina Crețu in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
4. ^ Valentina Pop: Names list for new EU commission complete. In: EU Observer , September 4, 2014.
5. ↑ Anca Gurzu: Romania's rulers take Euroskeptic turn. In: Politico , March 13, 2019.
6. ^ Raf Sanchez, Harriet Alexander: Colin Powell forced to deny affair with Romanian diplomat. August 2, 2013.
7. ↑ Raf Sanchez: Colin Powell: fresh details of Romanian MEP's emails emerge. In: The Telegraph , August 3, 2013.
8. ↑ Corina Creţu sa căsătorit cu omul de Afaceri Ovidiu Rogoz. DC News, Nov. 10, 2012.