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Former Agriculture Minister Dacian Ciolos has been recommended for a European Commissioner office on behalf of Romania, Prime Minister Emil Boc informed on Monday at the end of an extraordinary meeting of the Government.

“The nomination will be forwarded to Romania”s President, who will submit it to the President of the European Commission. We did the nomination following Ireland”s ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, Poland signing the treaty and waiting for the decision of the Czech Republic so that the Lisbon Treaty may fully come into force,” said Boc.

He added that the nomination will help setting up European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso”s team of European commissioners. Romania is aiming for the agriculture portfolio. After acceding to the European Union in January 2007, Romania was awarded the portfolio of multilingualism.

Ciolos, 40, is an agricultural engineer and economist by trade. He is a 1994 graduate of the Cluj University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, the Horticulture Department. He holds a diploma of postgraduate studies in rural production and development systems awarded by the ENSA National Higher Education School of Rennes, France.

In 1996-1997 he attended science master”s courses at the ENSA Montpellier, and in 2000-2006 he attended doctoral studies in economics of agricultural agri-food and rural development at ENSA Montpellier, France. Ciolos is fluent in English and French. January 2005- May 2007, Cioos was adviser to Romania”s agriculture minister and a representative on the Special Agricultural Committee of the European Council.

October 2007 – December 2009 he was the agriculture minister in the Tariceanu Cabinet.