Education
Crețu studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, graduating in 1989.
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Crețu studied at the Academy of Economic Studies, Faculty of Cybernetics, graduating in 1989.
Between June 2014 and October 2014, she served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament. She spent a year working as an economist at a factory in Blaj until 1990. She then worked as a journalist and political comentator between 1990 and 1992 for newspapers Azi, Curierul Național, and Cronica Română before joining the Spokesperson"s office of the Cabinet of President Ion Iliescu (1992-1996).
Between 2000 and 2004, Crețu was Presidential Advisor, Presidential Spokesperson and Head of the Public Communication Department during Ion Iliescu"s second mandate as Romanian president
In 2000 she was elected Deputy in Romania"s Parliament and, in 2004, to the Romanian Senate. In January 2005, at the invitation of the Jordanian Government, she conducted a training seminar at Amman for appointees to spokesperson positions in Iraq.
Crețu was also an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe observer to the parliamentary election of March 2005 in Moldova and to the general election of 2006 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2013, she was elected Vice-President of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party).
Crețu is a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party), and former Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats). In 1996, she became a member of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PDSR). As a Senator, she sat on the Foreign Policy Committee, and was a full member of the Romanian Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. In 2005, Crețu was appointed a member of the Romanian parliamentary delegation to the European Parliament.
She was elected Member of the European Parliament (sitting with the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats) on January 1, 2007 following the accession of Romania to the European Union, being re-elected as Member of the European Parliament in 2009 and 2014.