Romanian Cristina Coteanu to run for Belgian MEP in the 2014 European elections

Cristina Coteanu, former State Secretary of the Romanian Justice Minister, candidates as MEP for Les Fédéralistes démocrates francophones (FDF), a Belgian political party, according to the information wrote by La Capitale publication, after FDF press conference from January 31.

Coteanu has also French citizenship, this making her an eligible candidate for Belgian MEP elections. According to the publication mentioned above, Coteanu has an impressive CV that could make jealous any jurist who should retire, while she is only 35 years old.

Cristina Coteanu graduated Alexandru Ioan Cuza Faculty of Law (Iasi), Free University (Brussels), and Queen Mary College of London University for her PhD. She currently works as a member of Executive Office of Public Interest Registry for Europe as well as member of European Law Commission of Brussels Law Society, member of the International Center for arbitration and mediation and member of Arbitration Association from Paris.

While working for Romanian government, she represented the Foreign Affairs Minister from Luxemburg, during a project that consisted of the Turkey justice reform. From January 28, 2005 until May 2, 2005, she was the State Secretary of the Romanian Justice Minister. Last year, she candidate for European Court of Human Rights as Romanian judge, but wasn’t on the official list of selection made by Justice Minister.

More about her candidacy as MEP for Belgium FDF party can be seen here, French only.

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Oana Vasiliu