Eugen Tomac

Eugen Tomac (born 21 June 1981) is a Romanian politician, historian and journalist currently serving as MEP in the European Parliament for Romania since 2019.

Tomac graduated from the History Faculty at the University of Bucharest in 2003 with thesis "Basarabia, a Romanian Province on the Outskirts of the USSR".

During his university years, Tomac was an editor at the Magazin Istoric, a history journal, where he published several studies about Bessarabia and Romanians abroad.

During the next Parliamentary elections, he ran again and won the seat in the Parliament in the same County (Eastern Europe and Asia) with the highest score among his party colleagues, 78.7% of the votes.

As deputy, he drafted and initiated several law projects for supporting the Romanians living abroad and improving relations with the Republic of Moldova.

In 2015, Tomac was put by the Russian Federation on a blacklist of 89 politicians and officials from the European Union who are not allowed entry into Russia under its current sanctions regime.

[3] In May 2019, he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament representing The National Movement Party, along with former President of Romania, Traian Băsescu.

The main chapters addressed in this first public report published in Romania after 1989 present the current situation of the education and mass-media in Romanian in these communities (February 2005).