Alina Gîrbea, newly appointed secretary of state at the Ministry of Investments and European Projects, made her CV public on social networks, to put an end to speculations that her appointment was made on the basis of family relations with Cătălin Drula.
Alina Gîrbea made her CV public. PHOTO: Facebook/Alina Gîrbea
“This is the short version of my CV, sent today to colleagues at MIPE.
I appreciate the interest aroused by my appointment and I assure you that I have nothing to hide and I am always open to questions from any journalist interested in documenting. Both in terms of my career and the vision for the mandate at MIPE”, is the message sent Thursday evening, along with his resume.
PHOTO: Facebook/Alina Gîrbea
After numerous comments appeared in the public space correlating the appointment of Alina Gîrbea as state secretary at the Ministry of Investments and European Projects with the fact that she is the brother-in-law of the former USR leader, current candidate for the Capital City Hall, Cătălin Drula, several party colleagues jumped to her defense.
The first was even the president of the USR, Dominic Fritz, who admitted that he proposed her for this position and emphasized the experience and professional training of his party colleague, at the same time condemning the “generally misogynistic” attitude, according to which a woman can only succeed if “she belongs to someone”.
“A professional with 15 years of experience in European institutions, with solid studies at Sciences Po Paris, with an international career CV. She worked with the former president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, with Dacian Cioloş, with Cristian Preda, with the European Commission. She got there on merit. But for some, a woman cannot simply be competent. She must definitely be “someone’s””. Dominic Fritz scored.
Dacian Cioloş also came with a message on Facebook, in which he makes, in turn, a brief CV of Alina Gîrbea.
“I have known Alina Gîrbea since 2010, from my first year of mandate as European Commissioner for Agriculture. She was already working in the European institutions as an official and was one of the founders of Europuls, an association dedicated to the debate and explanation of Romania’s status as an EU member state.
Later, when I ended my mandate as Commissioner and the then President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, proposed that I support him as a special advisor on food security, Alina was part of the team of collaborators that I built.
In 2019, when I became a member of the European Parliament and later president of the Renew Europe group, I again proposed Alina to be part of my team of advisers, knowing her professional qualities. Later, she was also requested by the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, who co-opted her as an advisor for foreign affairs.
I say all this because, immediately after her appointment at MIPE, the main “news” that circulated about her was that she is Cătălin Drula’s sister-in-law.
When Alina decided to enter politics, in 2017–2018, she did not join USR, where Cătălin Drula was already a member, but PLUS. It arrived in USR only after the merger between PLUS and USR. Personally, I didn’t even know she was related until 2020, and I saw that as an irrelevant detail — because all my proposals for collaboration were made solely on the basis of her professional skills and experience. and never in our professional relations did Alina refer to her family relations with Catalin Drula.
I find it completely reductive that, instead of discussing her CV or the expertise gained during her 15 years of work in the European institutions, the focus is now only on a family connection.
I wish him much success and I am convinced that he will make an excellent team with Dragoș Pîslaru, another proven professional in the field of European funds“, Dacian Cioloş wrote a little while ago on his Facebook page.
