Siegfried Mureșan MEP |
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Siegfried Mureșan in the European Parliament in Strasbourg
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Member of the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 1 July 2014 |
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Personal details | |
Born |
Hunedoara, Romania |
20 September 1981
Political party |
Romania: People's Movement Party EU: European People's Party |
Website | http://www.siegfriedmuresan.eu/ |
Siegfried Mureșan (born 20 September 1981) is a Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Romania. He is a member of the People's Movement Party (PMP) in Romania and part of the European People's Party in the European Parliament. He was elected to the European Parliament for Romania in 2014. In the European Parliament, he is Vice Chair of the Committee on Budgets and Substitute Member in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. As of January 2015, he also holds the position of spokesman of the European People's Party (EPP). At the Party Congress of the People's Movement Party in February 2015, he was elected first Vice President.
A native of Hunedoara, Mureșan graduated from the Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies in 2004. He continued his studies with a Master in Economics and Management at Humboldt University from Berlin, which he completed in 2006.
After finishing his studies, Mureșan received a scholarship from the German Parliament (Deutscher Bundestag) to be part of its international traineeship program. After the traineeship, he became Advisor to the Chair of the Committee on the Affairs of the European Union of the German Parliament, Gunther Krichbaum. He held the position for three years. In 2009, he moved to Brussels, where he worked at the European Parliament until 2011.