Dan Cărbunaru, appointed spokesperson for the Luca Niculescu Government / He also held the position in the Nicolae Ciucă Government

Dan Cărbunaru will take over as government spokesperson starting Friday, after Prime Minister Luca Niculescu appointed him in a decision due to be published Thursday in the Official Gazette. The appointment is the main change announced within the Executive’s communications team.

Cărbunaru previously held this position during the government led by Nicolae Ciucă. Before returning to Victoria Palace, he was spokesperson for the National Grand Lodge of Romania, a position he subsequently resigned from.

Dan Cărbunaru is the founder of the online publication Calea Europeană, a multimedia platform dedicated to European and transatlantic relations. According to his CV, he was a correspondent in Brussels and a journalist accredited to the institutions of the European Union. He also reported, as a member of the Romanian press delegation accredited to the Presidency of Romania, on important events following the country’s accession to the EU.

Born in Brăila on April 14, 1978, Cărbunaru graduated from the Faculty of Law at Titu Maiorescu University in Bucharest. He worked as a journalist for Mediafax, Adevărul and Gândul. He attended the National Defence College and the National Intelligence College.

In 2006, he launched the Calea Europeană project, including a program broadcast on B1 TV for six years. The program was also broadcast by TVR 1 between October 2013 and February 2014.