Dear Bucharest Life
It looks as though Elena Udrea is about to be given her old job back as Minister of Tourism in the new government of Little Emil Boc (indeed, she may also get the Regional Development Ministry and billions in EU funds – kerching – thrown in, too).
I was therefore wondering if you had a photo on file that might demonstrate Mrs. Udrea’s credentials for the role of Minister of Tourism? Perhaps something with the great lady indulging in some tourism herself?
Regards
Ron Ionescu
Iasi
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Davin,
Do you really think that education makes someone a better leader? Warren Buffet, Michael Dell and Bill Gates don’t have many (or any) degrees. And on the other hand, George W. Bush went to Harvard.
Just because she looks like a bimbo, doesn’t make her one. She knows how to use her good looks (in a country where it matters) and it makes her smart, not stupid.
There is a reason that you are not running Romania (or US) and almost at the same age, she is the Minister of Tourism.
Check more about her on Wikipedia –
She was born in Buzău and completed secondary studies at the city’s Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College. She then attended the faculty of Law and Public Administration at Bucharest’s Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, graduating in 1996. Since 2005 Udrea has pursued studies at the Carol I National Defence University, receiving a master’s degree in Military Science in 2007 and continuing to work on a doctorate in the same field.
Udrea worked as a lawyer in Bucharest from 1997 to February 2005, resuming the practice of law that December. At Dimitrie Cantemir, she began teaching political systems in autumn 2007, and she has authored or co-authored five works on geopolitics and globalisation. Some of her activities as a lawyer have drawn criticism from the non-governmental Political Investigation Group: for instance, it has questioned the fact that while an opposition city councillor in 2004, she represented the government-run Department for State Heritage Administration (RA-APPS), at one point receiving public contracts worth 710 million lei during a single week.
An excellent question, Ron, in the best traditions of Private Eye.
Stay classy Elena!
Spread eagled. hmm. . . what about high-end credentials? Where was she educated???? You know, I was educated at top American schools. . . note to the Romania people: I, Davin Ellicson, a 31 year-old American could run this country a whole better than any of these fools. I actually care about Romania, unlike these nutcases. I chose to move here from America. I chose to move to Europe’s most corrupt and second poorest country. Romania is an amazing place but somehow the people who run it are all peasants who only want to amass millions for themselves. It is about education people. Romania is a peasant culture. In 2009, Bucharest is like a city full of peasants from the countryside who somehow have had the luck to switch from a horse drawn cart to a top of the range Mercedes. You can’t have this kind of mentality and govern properly. Romania needs some proper, well educated, non-Communist era, non-peasant people to lead the country. It’s the only way, When you think that Ceausescu was a shoemaker and yet commanded Romania for 24 years, it boggles the mind. C’mon. Romania is a joke of a country.