The reaction of another name conveyed for the head of the SRI: “I do not understand where it comes from”
International relations expert Valentin Naumescu, about whom several publications have written in recent days that it would be a variant taken into account for the SRI chief, said that no one has talked to him on this topic and is not interested in running the Romanian Intelligence Service.
His reaction comes after his name was carried, besides that of lawyer Gabriel Zbârcea, as variants taken into account by President Nicușor Dan for the SRI leadership.
“It is reported to me that, starting two days ago, following an article in a newspaper, a few media platforms carries my name in relation to a so-called appointment proposal as director of the SRI. I do not understand where this vehicle of my name comes from, which begins to have a certain persistence in the public space, and which is not in the morning.
“In any case, I mention that I had no discussion in this regard with anyone and I am not interested in this position,” he added.
Who is Valentin Naumescu
Valentin Naumescu, who has published opinion articles in Contributors and Hotnews, is a professor of international relations at the Faculty of European Studies of Babeș-Bolyai Cluj, the president of the Think Tank initiative for European Democratic Culture (ICDE) and the director of the Euxglob Center.
He is empowered in the management of doctorates in the field of international relations and European studies and is the coordinator of the Master of International Relations, Foreign Policy and Crisis Management (in English) from UBB Cluj, according to the contributors'
Between 2005 and 2007 he was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and between 2008 and 2012 was the general consul of Romania in Toronto. It has the diplomatic degree of minister-consilier, obtained through the competition.
He has published 24 books, in Romania and abroad (Great Britain, Canada, Holland), as a unique author, co -author, editor or co -editor and over 60 scientific articles and chapters/studies in specialized magazines and collective volumes.
Books published in recent years include: the policy of great powers in Central and Eastern Europe. 30 years since the end of the Cold War (Humanitas, 2019), The New European Union and Its Global Strategy: from Brexit to Pesco (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020), the US-China Supreme War and the five forces that change the world. Consequences for Romania (Polirom, 2022) and Great Powers' Foreign Policy: Approaching the Global Competition and the Russian War Against the West (Brill, 2023).
