Dragoș Tudorache (born 14 January 1975) is a Romanian politician of

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who has been serving as a

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since 2019.

Early career

From 2000, Tudorache worked as the coordinator of analysis team in the Department of Rule of Law and Protection of Human Rights of the

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(OSCE) in

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. Between 2003 and 2005 he served as the Head of the Legal Department of the UN team of International Judges at the

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(UNMIK). From 2005 until 2007, Tudorache worked at the Delegation of the European Commission in Bucharest, where he was responsible for legal and anti-corruption issues. In 2007 he joined the

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in Brussels.

Political career

Career in national politics

On 17 September 2016, Dragoș Tudorache was appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, after having previously been head of the chancellery in the

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, an apolitical, technocratic government. He held this position until 4 January 2017, when the

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was invested, following the

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. Immediately after the establishment of the Party of

Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party The Party of Liberty, Unity and Solidarity (, PLUS) was a pro-European, liberal political party established on 26 October 2018, whose president was Dacian Cioloș, former Prime Minister of Romania from 2015 until 2017, elected on 26 January 2019. ...

(PLUS) on 15 December 2018, Tudorache joined this party and ran in its internal elections for the 2019 European elections.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

Following the 2019 elections, Tudorache was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's five-year work program on the rule of law, borders and migration. He is his parliamentary group's

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on the

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. He later joined the

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, the Special Committee on Artificial Intelligence in a Digital Age the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of

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and equivalent surveillance

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(since 2022). In 2021, he also joined the parliament's working group on

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, led by

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. In addition to his committee assignments, Tudorache is part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with the United States and with Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo. He is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Anti-Corruption. Since 2021, Tudorache has been serving as deputy chair of the

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parliamentary group, under the leadership of chair

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Political positions

In 2021, Tudorache joined seven other Romanian MEPs in co-signing a letter to

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and

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in which they call on the European Commission to stop the United Kingdom from holding EU nationals in immigration removal centers.Cristina Gallardo (May 12, 2021)
MEPs urge von der Leyen to tackle UK immigration detention of EU nationals
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tudorache, Dragoș Living people MEPs for Romania 2019–2024 Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party politicians 1975 births