Eduard Hellvig
Eduard Hellvig | |
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Vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies | |
Assumed office 20 December 2012 | |
President | Valeriu Zgonea |
Deputy in Chamber of Deputies, Uninominal College nr. 4, Ilfov | |
Assumed office 20 December 2012 | |
Secretary-General of the National Liberal Party | |
Assumed office 3 May 2011 | |
President | Crin Antonescu |
Preceded by | Radu Stroe |
Minister of Regional Development and Tourism | |
In office 7 May 2012 – 19 December 2012 | |
Prime Minister | Victor Ponta |
Preceded by | Cristian Predescu |
Succeeded by | Liviu Dragnea |
Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 1 January 2007 – 25 November 2007 | |
Deputy in Chamber of Deputies, Bihor | |
In office 17 December 2004 – 15 December 2008 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Zalău, Sălaj, România | 27 October 1974
Political party | National Liberal Party |
Other political affiliations | Social Liberal Union |
Spouse | Andreea Hellvig |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Facultatea de Științe Politice și Administrație Publică a Universității Babeș-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca |
Eduard Raul Hellvig (born October 27, 1974) is a Romanian politician and journalist. From 2004 to 2008, he was a Member of the Romanian Parliament (Secretary of the
Committee for Defence, Public Order, and National Security, and member of the Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was also a Member of the European Parliament between 2006 and 2007 – (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe - ALDE Group, member of the Committee on International Trade INTA and member of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence SEDE).
Born in Zalău, Hellvig graduated in Political Science and Public Administration from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (1997) and worked as a stockbroker until 1998; during that time, he was also present on the editorial staff for Stelian Tănase's Sfera Politicii magazine. In 1999-2000, during the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinet, he worked as a Chief of Staff for Minister of the Interior Constantin Dudu Ionescu (his former colleague at the University).[1]
With Zsolt Szilágyi and others, Hellvig was nominated a member of Generaţia Aşteptată ("The Awaited Generation"), a project which took inspiration from a campaign in the newspaper Cotidianul, and which sought to evidence and nominate the valuable young contributors to Romanian society.[1]
In 2003, Hellvig joined the PC and became its representative in Parliament.[1] In 2011, PNL President Crin Antonescu named him the party's secretary general.[2]
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- ^ Template:Ro icon "Crin Antonescu l-a pus secretar general al PNL pe Eduard Hellvig. Radu Stroe, mutat la comisii" ("Crin Antonescu Names Eduard Hellvig as PNL Secretary General. Radu Stroe, Moved to Committees"), Evenimentul Zilei, 3 May 2011; accessed May 5, 2011