Eduard Hellvig

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Eduard Raul Hellvig (b. October 27, 1974) is a Romanian politician and journalist. Since 2004, he is a deputy for Bihor County representing the Conservative Party, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and became a Member of the European Parliament on January 1, 2007 (with the accession of Romania to the European Union).

Born in Zalău, Hellvig graduated in Political Science and Public Administration from the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca (1997) and worked as a stock broker until 1998; during that time, he was also present on the editorial staff for Stelian Tănase's Sfera Politicii magazine. In 1999-2000, during the Romanian Democratic Convention cabinet, he worked as a Chief of Staff for Minister of the Interior Constantin Dudu Ionescu (his former colleague at the University).^[1]

With Zsolt Szilagyi and others, Hellvig was nominated a member of Generaţia Aşteptată ("The Awaited Generation"), a project which took inspiration from a campaign in the newspaper Cotidianul, and which sought to evidence and nominate the valuable young contributors to Romanian society.^[2]

In 2003, Hellvig joined the PC and became its representative in Parliament.^[3]