Corina Crețu (born 24 June 1967) is a Romanian politician and a former European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms. Crețu is a member of the Romanian

PRO Romania PRO Romania (, PRO) is an extra-parliamentary social liberal political party in Romania. History The founding of PRO Romania was initiated in 2017 by former Prime Minister Victor Ponta, former acting/ad interim Prime Minister and Minister o ...

and

Member of the European Parliament A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been Election, elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the European Coal and S ...

(sitting with the

Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) is the Political groups of the European Parliament, political group in the European Parliament of the Party of European Socialists (PES). The Progressive Alliance of Socialists and ...

). Between June 2014 and October 2014, she served as a

Vice-President of the European Parliament There are fourteen vice-presidents of the European Parliament who sit in for the President of the European Parliament, president in presiding over the plenary of the European Parliament. Role Vice-presidents are members of the Bureau (European P ...

Political career

Crețu studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of

Cybernetics Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action. It is concerned with ...

, graduating in 1989. She spent a year working as an economist at a factory in Blaj until 1990. She then worked as a journalist and political commentator between 1990 and 1992 for newspapers '' Azi'', ''

Curierul Național Curierul Național is a Romanian daily newspaper founded by Valentin Păunescu and Adrian Sârbu, along with five other shareholders, including George Constantin Păunescu and Sergiu Nicolaescu. The first issue was published in Bucharest on Decembe ...

'', and ''Cronica Română'' before joining the Spokesperson's office of the Cabinet of

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Ion Iliescu Ion Iliescu (; born 3 March 1930) is a Romanian politician and engineer who served as the second president of Romania from 1989 until 1996 and from 2000 until 2004. Between 1996 and 2000 and also from 2004 to 2008, the year in which he retired, ...

(1992-1996). In 1996, she became a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PDSR). Between 2000 and 2004, Crețu was Presidential Advisor, Presidential Spokesperson and Head of the Public Communication Department during

's second mandate as Romanian president. In 2000 she was elected Deputy in Romania's Parliament and, in 2004, to the Romanian Senate. As a Senator, she sat on the Foreign Policy Committee, and was a full member of the Romanian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the

OSCE The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a regional security-oriented intergovernmental organization comprising member states in Europe, North America, and Asia. Its mandate includes issues such as arms control, the pr ...

. In January 2005, at the invitation of the Jordanian Government, she conducted a training seminar at

Amman Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...

for appointees to spokesperson positions in

Iraq Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to Iraq–Saudi Arabia border, the south, Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq border, the east, the Persian Gulf and ...

. Crețu was also an OSCE observer to the parliamentary election of March 2005 in

Moldova Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. ...

and to the general election of 2006 in

Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

. In 2005, Crețu was appointed a member of the Romanian parliamentary delegation to the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ...

. She was elected

(MEP), sitting with the

on January 1, 2007 following the accession of Romania to the European Union, being re-elected as an MEP in 2009 and 2014. In 2013, she was elected vice-president of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSD). Crețu announced on 17 January 2019 that she would be a candidate in the

European Parliament election Elections to the European Parliament take place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's. Until 2019, 751 ...

on behalf of the party

Pro Romania PRO Romania (, PRO) is an extra-parliamentary social liberal political party in Romania. History The founding of PRO Romania was initiated in 2017 by former Prime Minister Victor Ponta, former acting/ad interim Prime Minister and Minister o ...

. She was at the second position in the list after

Victor Ponta Victor Viorel Ponta (; born 20 September 1972) is a Romanian politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of Romania from 2012 to 2015. He was president of the Social Democratic Party (Romania), Social Democratic Party (PSD) from 2010 to ...

. She joined Victor Ponta's

in March 2019.

Personal life

Her father, Traian Crețu (1937–1995), was Professor of Physics at the

Politehnica University of Bucharest Politehnica University of Bucharest () is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania founded in 1818.University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest (UB) () is a public university, public research university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely Academy of Bucharest, P ...

. In 2012, Crețu married Ovidiu Rogoz, a Romanian businessman, at the New Church of St Spyridon in Bucharest. Personal e-mails Cretu had exchanged with then U.S. Secretary of State

Colin Powell Colin Luther Powell ( ; – ) was an Americans, American diplomat, and army officer who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005. He was the first African-American to hold the office. He was the 15th National Security ...

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 Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by the American technology conglomerate Meta Platforms, Meta. Created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with four other Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andre ...

page.Colin Powell denies affair after emails are hacked by mysterious 'Guccifer'
by Jonathan Easley,'' The Hill'', 1 August 2013 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.” He added that "those types of emails ended a few years ago. There was no affair then and there is not one now.”Colin Powell forced to deny affair with Romanian diplomat
by Raf Sanchez, ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was found ...

'', 2 August 2013

Honours

* '' Cavaler'',

Order of the Star of Romania The Order of the Star of Romania (Romanian: ''Ordinul Steaua României'') is Romania's highest civil Order and second highest State decoration after the Order of Michael the Brave. It is the oldest Order of Romania. It is awarded by the Preside ...

(2013)

References

External links

European Parliament profile

European Parliament official photo
* Creţu'
Official website
and

blog A blog (a Clipping (morphology), truncation of "weblog") is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in Reverse chronology, reverse chronologic ...

* Corina Creţu
The British War Against Immigrants is Anti-European, Unjustified and Wrong
Huffington Post, 2 June 2014. *
Corina Creţu at the Romanian Senate site
*
Corina Creţu at the Romanian Chamber of Deputies site

www.elections2014.eu
, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Cretu, Corina 1967 births Knights of the Order of the Star of Romania Living people Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Romania) Members of the Senate of Romania MEPs for Romania 2014–2019 MEPs for Romania 2019–2024 Romanian European commissioners Women European commissioners Women MEPs for Romania European commissioners (2014–2019)