Corina Crețu

Corina Crețu (born 24 June 1967 ) is Consul General, head of the Consulate General of Romania in Thessaloniki, Hellenic Republic.

Crețu is a former European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms. and Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). Between June 2014 and October 2014, she served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament. She then worked as a journalist and political commentator between 1990 and 1992 for newspapers Azi, Curierul Național, and Cronica Română

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

Crețu announced on 17 January 2019 that she would be a candidate in the European Parliament election on behalf of the party Pro Romania. She was at the second position in the list after Victor Ponta.

She joined Victor Ponta's PRO Romania in March 2019.

Personal life

Her father, Traian Crețu (1937–1995), was Professor of Physics at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Her mother, Verginia Crețu is a child development psychologist and was a professor at the University of Bucharest.

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 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 page. 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.”

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