Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Romania Thessaloniki, Greece - Consul General, head of the Consulate General of Romania in Thessaloniki, Hellenic 24/04/2025 – Current
The Agency for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Performance of Public Enterprises - President 21/10/2024 – 21/04/2025
European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
01/07/2019 – 15/07/2024
Member:
• Committee on Budgetary Control
• Committee on Regional Development
• Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee
Substitute:
• Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
• Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
• Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary • Delegation to the EU-Kazakhstan, EU-Kyrgyzstan, EU-Uzbekistan and EU-Tajikistan Committees and for relations with Turkmenistan and Mongolia
European Commission
European Commissioner for Regional Policy
01/11/2014 – 01/07/2019
As European Commissioner for Regional Policy I have managed a budget of 350 billion Given my responsibility over DG Regio, I have overseen more than 1000 working my cabinet.
The hierarchical layer above was the President of the European Commission,
hierarchical layer below consisted of DG Regio - Director-General Marc Lemaître were the other 27 (26 after Brexit) European Commissioners, Members of the Responsibilities:
• Identifying how EU structural and investment funds can foster job creation • Protecting the EU budget against fraud by checking that regional funds are • Continuous monitoring of the efficiency of spending programs to create regional • Identifying how EU structural and investment funds can contribute to the establishment Union and the completion of the digital single market.
European Parliament
Vice-President of the European Parliament; Member of the European Parliament
01/07/2014 – 31/10/2014
Member:
• European Parliament's Bureau
• Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
• Delegation for relations with Israel
• Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean
Substitute:
• Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
• Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee