Dacian Julien Cioloș (; born 27 July 1969) is a Romanian
agronomist
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who served as
Prime Minister of Romania
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from November 2015 to January 2017. He previously served as
Agriculture Minister
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under
Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu
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between October 2007 and December 2008. In November 2009,
European Commission
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President
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José Manuel Barroso
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nominated him to be the next
Agriculture Commissioner, a position he assumed in February 2010 and held until his term expired in November 2014. In November 2015,
President
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Klaus Iohannis
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named him Prime Minister; Cioloș assumed office after receiving approval from
Parliament
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.
He remained until after the
2016 parliamentary election, which was lost by the parties that called for Cioloș to continue his term. Cioloș is the founder of the
Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party
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(PLUS) within the larger former political construction
USR PLUS
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(2019–2021). Between October 2021 and February 2022, he led the
Save Romania Union
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(USR), into which the party he founded was merged. In May 2019, he was
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a
Member of the European Parliament
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(MEP), subsequently becoming leader of the new
Renew Europe
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. He relinquished the leadership upon becoming USR president.
In October 2021, following the ousting of Prime Minister
Florin Cîțu
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through a motion of no-confidence, President Iohannis nominated Cioloș as Prime Minister-designate but the Parliament rejected the proposal. The following May, he quit USR and launched a new party,
REPER.
Biography
Background and government career
He was born in
Zalău
Zalău (, unofficial and former official name: ro, Zălau (; german: Zillenmarkt or , hu, Zilah, tr, Zile) is the seat of Sălaj County, Romania. In 2011, its estimated population was 56,202.
History
Ancient times
Zalău is situated in the ...
, but spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in nearby
Pericei
Pericei ( hu, Szilágyperecsen) is a commune located in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania. It is composed of four villages: Bădăcin (''Szilágybadacsony''), Pericei, Periceiu Mic (''Kisperecsentanya''), and Sici (''Somlyószécs'').
Geography
The ...
village, where he developed an interest in farming. After graduating from the agricultural high school in
Șimleu Silvaniei
Șimleu Silvaniei (; hu, Szilágysomlyó, german: Schomlenmarkt) is a town in Sălaj County, Crișana, Romania with a population of 14,436 people (2011 census). It is located near the ancient Dacian fortress Dacidava.
Three villages are adminis ...
in 1987, he attended the Faculty of Horticulture at the
, earning a horticultural engineer's degree in 1994. While a student, Cioloș belonged to the
Romanian Hearth Union
The Romanian Hearth Union or Romanian Hearth Federation ( ro, Uniunea Vatra Românească) is a far-right nationalist movement and civic organization, founded in Târgu Mureș in 1990.
The main purpose of the organization is to save Romanians "hun ...
’s youth wing; he states that his activities there were of a cultural nature, and had nothing to do with the party's extreme nationalist stance. He also holds degrees in the economy of agricultural development from the
École nationale supérieure agronomique de Rennes and from the
University of Montpellier 1, where he respectively earned a master's in 1997 and a doctorate in 2006. He has belonged to the agricultural
think tank
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Groupe de Bruges since 2000.
[Profile at the Romanian Government site]
accessed October 12, 2009 Although in Romania Cioloș was a political
independent
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,
he was affiliated with the
European People's Party
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(EPP) at the
European level.
From 1991 to 1996, Cioloș completed thirteen months' worth of internships on organic farms in the French region of
Brittany
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. In the summer of 1995, he prepared a rural development project between
Savoie
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and
Argeș County
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Demographics
On 20 October 2011, it had a population of 612,431 and the population density was 89/km2.
* Romanians – 97%
* Roma (Gypsi ...
, while working at the
Aveyron
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agricultural chamber of commerce in
Rodez
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during 1997, studying agricultural and rural development in the northern part of that
department
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. In 1997 and 1999, he
interned
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as an agro-economist at the
European Commission
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's
Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
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in
Brussels
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, helping prepare the
(SAPARD). In 1998–1999, he directed a local rural development programme in Argeș County, again cooperating with Savoie. From 1999 to 2001, he worked at two agricultural development agencies in France, coordinating joint programmes with Romania in that field. From 2002 to 2003, as part of the European Commission's delegation to Romania, he helped manage SAPARD's implementation in his native country. From January 2005 to May 2007, he was an adviser to Romania's Agriculture Minister, and a representative in the
Council of the European Union
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's
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. From May to October 2007, he was undersecretary of state for European affairs at the ministry.
Following the resignation of
Decebal Traian Remeș
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due to a corruption scandal, he was appointed Agriculture Minister in October 2007, serving until the following December, when Tăriceanu's
National Liberal Party-led government left office after
a parliamentary election. Early in 2009, he returned to work at the Agriculture and Rural Development DG, and that July,
President
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Traian Băsescu
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named him to head a one-year commission looking at public agricultural development policies.
Nomination and term as EU Commissioner for Agriculture
In October 2009, the
Emil Boc
Emil Boc (; born 6 September 1966) is a Romanian politician who was Prime Minister of Romania from 22 December 2008 until 6 February 2012 and is the current Mayor of Cluj-Napoca, the largest city of Transylvania, where he was first elected in Ju ...
government, hoping to secure the
Agriculture portfolio in the second
Barroso Commission
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, nominated Cioloș as Romania's EU Commissioner. The proposal was criticised by the opposition
National Liberals (PNL) and
Social Democrats
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(PSD), who saw it as a last-ditch maneuver by a government on the brink of collapse, as well as by the
Party of European Socialists
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, who believed that the position ought to have gone to a Social Democrat.
[ Dan Carp]
"Cioloș aruncat în luptă" ("Cioloș Thrown into Battle")
''Ziua'', 13 October 2009; accessed 13 October 2009 Boc's cabinet did indeed collapse the day after nominating Cioloș, when it lost a
motion of no confidence
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.
At the end of November, Barroso nominated Cioloș to the Agriculture position, observing that he was the "most competent" of those submitted for consideration, and lauding his "modern vision" of agriculture and rural development. The
British
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magazine ''
Farmers Weekly
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'' considered the nomination "a controversial choice", citing recent mismanagement by Romania of EU funds, but also acknowledged his "broad agricultural experience".
England and Wales' National Farmers Union as well as
Scotland's NFU welcomed the appointment.
Italian
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Minister of Agriculture
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Luca Zaia
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and
French President
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Nicolas Sarkozy
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likewise congratulated Cioloș.
German
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news agency
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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and British newspaper ''
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'' both criticised the nomination due to the funds mismanagement issue, with French daily ''
Ouest-France
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'' alleging that the cause of British indignation was the perception that Cioloș would be akin to a second French EU Commissioner, given his close ties to that country.
After winning approval from the
European Parliament
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in February 2010, Cioloș set forth his priority: maintaining a "thriving agricultural sector" in order to ensure
food security
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, environmental preservation and protection of the countryside, help combat
global warming
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and maintain a "fair standard of living" for farmers. As part of this objective, he promised to continue adapting and restructuring the
Common Agricultural Policy
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.
In July 2015, Barroso's successor
Jean-Claude Juncker
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named Cioloș as his special adviser on international food security.
As Prime Minister
In November 2015,
Prime Minister
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Victor Ponta
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resigned following protests sparked by a
deadly nightclub fire, and
President
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Klaus Iohannis
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appointed Cioloș as his successor. The latter proposed
a technocratic cabinet composed of twenty-one members, a third of them women. The cabinet won approval from
Parliament
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on a 389–115 vote: the main
Social Democrats
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(PSD) and
National Liberals (PNL) were both in favour, although a number of legislators from the former party defied the leadership to vote against the cabinet. Additionally, the
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) was opposed. He considers his two main achievements while in office to have been an increase in transparency, including the online release of salaries and expenditures for public institutions and financing contracts; and a reduction in bureaucracy that involved the elimination of numerous formalities. Ahead of the
2016 parliamentary election, Cioloș received the endorsement on behalf of the National Liberals (PNL) and of the
Save Romania Union
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(USR), in turn urging voters to back either party. When these parties lost the election, the prime minister expressed his regret; the following month, he was succeeded by
Sorin Grindeanu
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.
Return to politics
In March 2018, Cioloș announced the creation of a new political party, the Romania Together Movement.
Because the legal registration of the new political party took too long, Cioloș announced on 15 December 2018 the existence of a new party, already registered by some anonymous collaborators, called the
Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party
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( ro, Partidul Libertății, Unității și Solidarității, PLUS), thus dropping the former political project.
In January 2019, at the first national convention of PLUS, Cioloș was elected president of the newly emerged political party with 99.17% of the votes. The following month, Cioloș announced the establishment of the
2020 USR-PLUS Alliance between PLUS and the
Dan Barna
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Bi ...
-led
Save Romania Union
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(USR). That May, he
was elected a
Member of the European Parliament
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. He subsequently became leader of the new
Renew Europe
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political group
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, having secured support from
En Marche
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,
Ciudadanos
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and parties from Germany and the Netherlands. He left that post in autumn 2021 in order to focus on domestic politics.
In October 2021, following the merger of USR with PLUS, Cioloș was elected the first president of the unified party, defeating Barna on a 50.9 to 49.1 margin. Later that month, following the collapse of the
Florin Cîțu
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government, Iohannis once again named Cioloș as Prime Minister. Cioloș and his proposed cabinet were voted down in Parliament, on a vote of 88–184. In February 2022, after his program was rejected by subordinates in the USR leadership, Cioloș resigned as party president. That May, he quit USR altogether, citing dissatisfaction with the new leadership, and launched a new party,
Renewing Romania's European Project
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(REPER).
Personal life
In 2000, Cioloș married Valérie Villemin, a French agriculture expert he met while studying in France. The ceremony took place in his grandparents' village of Pericei. The couple have no children.
[ Radu Eremia]
"Cioloş, despre religia sa: Eu sunt creştin-ortodox" ("Cioloş, about His Religion: I Am an Orthodox Christian")
''Adevărul'', 22 November 2015; accessed 8 December 2015 He has a younger brother, Sorin.
[ Alina Pop]
''Adevărul'', 15 November 2015; accessed 8 December 2015 His father insisted on ''Dacian'' as a first name, while his French middle name comes from
Julien Sorel, protagonist of ''
The Red and the Black
''Le Rouge et le Noir'' (; meaning ''The Red and the Black'') is a historical psychological novel in two volumes by Stendhal, published in 1830. It chronicles the attempts of a provincial young man to rise socially beyond his modest upbringing t ...
'', a book that Cioloș's mother read while pregnant with him.
[ Gabriel Pecheanu]
"Premierul Dacian Cioloş a explicat de ce îl cheamă şi Julien" ("Premier Dacian Cioloş Explains Why He Is Also Called Julien")
Mediafax, 1 November 2016; accessed 10 April 2018 Cioloș is a member of the
Romanian Orthodox Church
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.
See also
*
Cioloș Cabinet
The Cioloș Cabinet was the 125th Government of Romania. It was led by Dacian Cioloș, who was appointed Prime Minister of Romania on 10 November 2015, after the resignation of Victor Ponta amid mass protests against generalised corruption link ...
References
External links
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