Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (2013)

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu (born September 22, 1968 in Iași ) is a Romanian politician , historian and diplomat . Ungureanu was Romania's foreign minister from December 29, 2004 to March 12, 2007. From February to April 2012 he was Prime Minister of his country. His term of office fell during a state crisis . From 2007 to 2012 and again from 2015 to 2016 he was director of the Romanian foreign intelligence service Serviciul de Informații Externe (SIE).

Life

Studies and academic career

After graduating from high school, Ungureanu studied at the Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași . As a high school student and student, he was a deputy member of the central committee of the communist youth organization Uniunea Tineretului Comunist (UTC) from 1985 until the Romanian Revolution in 1989 . 1992–93 he completed postgraduate studies in Jewish studies at the Oxford Center for Hebrew Studies at the University of Oxford , where he was a member of St Cross College .

He made a career at the University of Iași, initially as a research assistant (1992–95), then as an assistant (1995–98) and lecturer ( lector , 1998–2004). He was visiting scholar or visiting professor at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (1993-97), the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) at the University College London (1996-98), the NATO School in Oberammergau (2001), the Romanian National School for Political and Administrative Studies SNSPA (2002) and the European Center for Security Studies George C. Marshall (2003). In 2004 he received his doctorate through his alma mater and then appointed junior professor ( conferențiar , 2004-06). In 2007 he received a professorship for modern Romanian history at the University of Bucharest .

Work for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Secret Service

At the same time, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2001 as State Secretary, from 2001 to 2003 as Director General and Regional Representative for the Stability Pact for Southeast Europe and from 2003 to 2004 as Deputy Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) in Vienna .

After joining the Partidul Național Liberal (PNL), he became Minister for Foreign Affairs on December 29, 2004 . Due to a worsening power struggle between the Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (PNL) and President Traian Băsescu ( PD ), he resigned on February 4, 2007. The immediate reason for the resignation was an affair involving two Romanian civilians imprisoned in Iraq who had been accused of espionage by the American side . He also resigned from the PNL. He then became director of the Romanian secret service Serviciul de Informații Externe in November 2007 .

Term of office as Prime Minister

After the resignation of the Romanian government in early 2012, the non-party Ungureanu was tasked with forming a government by Romanian President Traian Băsescu . The Romanian parliament elected him on February 9, 2012 with 237 to 2 votes as the new Prime Minister. In addition to Ungureanu, the Ungureanu cabinet includes 17 ministers, 9 of them from the PD-L, 4 from the UDMR, 2 from the UNPR and 2 independents. On April 27, 2012 - after less than three months in office - Ungureanu's government failed due to a successful vote of no confidence in parliament, which had been tabled by the Partidul Social Democrat (PSD) and Partidul National Liberal (PNL) parties . The center-right alliance has been accused of allowing lobby groups to blackmail itself into allocating public funds. In the previous weeks, many members of the ruling Partidul Democrat Liberal (PDL) had defected to the opposition. The PDL had come under fire for its rigid austerity policies over the past four years, which included wage and pension cuts and tax increases.

Party chairman, senator, secret service director again

Before the parliamentary elections in December 2012, Ungureanu joined the small bourgeois party Forța Civică and was immediately elected its chairman. The party was part of the center-right "Alliance for a Just Romania", on whose list Ungureanu was elected as the only member of his party in the Romanian Senate . He represented the Arad district there . In 2014 the Forța Civică dissolved and Ungureanu became a member of the PNL again.

Ungureanu was reappointed Director of the Romanian foreign intelligence service Serviciul de Informații Externe on June 24, 2015 by President Klaus Johannis (PNL) and subsequently confirmed by the Romanian Parliament. He resigned his Senate mandate when he took office on June 30, 2015. In September 2016 he resigned as director.

Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is married and has one son.

Web links

Commons : Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu in the catalog of the German National Library
• Mihai Rãzvan Ungureanu in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Primii 100 de lustrabili , evz.ro, April 27, 2006.
2. ^ Former St Cross associated student nominated as Romanian PM , St Cross College, University of Oxford.
3. ↑ The power struggle in Romania with serious consequences: Foreign Minister Ungureanu forced to resign ; Article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on February 6, 2007
4. ^ The head of the Romanian secret service is to become prime minister ; Article on Zeit-Online from February 7, 2012.
5. ^ Karl-Peter Schwarz: Boycott of the opposition: Ungureanu new Prime Minister of Romania ; Article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on February 9, 2012.
6. ^ Government falls in the dispute over austerity policies Süddeutsche.de, accessed on April 28, 2012
7. ^ Romania: Government falls in the dispute over austerity at sueddeutsche.de, April 27, 2012 (accessed on April 27, 2012).
8. ↑ Romania: No-confidence vote overturns center-right government on faz.net, April 27, 2012 (accessed April 27, 2012).
9. ↑ Adz.ro: Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu appointed SIE boss on June 25, 2015
10. ↑ Misterioasa Plecare a lui MRU şi ficusul de la Cotroceni