1. Eugen Tomac was born on 21 June 1981 and is a Romanian politician, historian and journalist currently serving as MEP in the European Parliament for Romania since 2019.
17 Facts About Eugen Tomac
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Eugen Tomac is the President of the People's Movement Party.
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Eugen Tomac came to Romania at the age of 17, through a scholarship program offered by the Romanian Government to Romanians living abroad.
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Active in politics from early adulthood, Eugen Tomac was president of the League for Romanian Youth Abroad from 2000 to 2004 and then coordinator of youth national projects at the Democratic Education Center.
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Eugen Tomac worked as editor at the Ziua and Confluente newspapers, and at the Romanian Public Radio and Television.
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Eugen Tomac graduated from the History Faculty at the University of Bucharest in 2003 with thesis "Basarabia, a Romanian Province on the Outskirts of the USSR".
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Eugen Tomac earned his master's degree in 2004 from the same university, with the thesis paper "Mechanisms of Denationalization in the USSR".
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In 2006, at the age of 25, Eugen Tomac joined the Presidential Administration as an Expert, responsible for relations with Romanians Everywhere.
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Eugen Tomac decided on the donation of over one million Romanian books for libraries and schools in the Republic of Moldova, and the re-publishing of almost half a million Romanian History manuals for educational institutions in Moldova.
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Eugen Tomac started his political formal political career as a member of the Democratic Liberal Party.
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Eugen Tomac was appointed Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for the Romanian Communities Abroad.
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In 2015, Eugen Tomac was put by the Russian Federation on a blacklist of 89 politicians and officials from the European Union who are not allowed entry into Russia under its current sanctions regime.
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Eugen Tomac was the leader of the Parliamentary Group of the People Movement Party from the Chamber of Deputies.
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Eugen Tomac is member of several delegations of the European Parliament: the Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, the Delegation for relations with Serbia.
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Eugen Tomac has often raised concerns regarding the presence of Russian military troops on the territory of the Republic of Moldova and timely signalled the danger of the amassing of Russian troops at the Ukrainian border and the autocratic regime in Belarus.
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Eugen Tomac has been an active advocate of the proper implementation of the European Child Guarantee in the EU member states, the tackling of child poverty and social exclusions so that no child is left behind in Europe.
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Eugen Tomac coordinated the "Focus on Romanians" study, a report on the situation of Romanians living abroad and revealing major aspects of discrimination.