Romanian presidential candidate Calin Georgescu, who is considered a right-wing radical, mainly owes his participation in the second election to his compatriots living abroad. In Austria, the 62-year-old doctor in pedology even received almost 50 percent of the votes. Georgescu-Roegen also has strong ties with Austria; After all, he lived with his family in the Alpine Republic for ten years. However, his Austrian activities remain largely unclear.
Records in the Austrian land registry show that Georgescu-Roegen moved from a prefabricated building in Bucharest to Mödling in 2011 and then to Alland in the Baden district in 2014. Later, his family – he, his wife Cristela-Elena and two sons – lived in the municipality of Günselsdorf, also in the Baden district, from 2017 to 2021.
However, Georgescu-Roegen’s connections to Austria date back to before his move. As early as 2009, the then sustainability expert was listed on the internet as a board member of “The Club of Rome – European Support Center”, based in Vienna. This ‘European Bureau of the Club of Rome’, created at the end of the 1990s, was intended to promote an eastern expansion of the ‘Club of Rome’, which specialized in environmental and economic issues, and to develop new to support ‘chapters’ (national departments). organizations, take note) in Eastern Europe. In 2010, the Romanian, born in 1962, became honorary chairman of this ‘European agency’ in Vienna.
The Austrian club officials involved at the time can no longer remember exactly how Georgescu-Roegen ended up on the board. However, there is a clear connection with the Romanian “Chapter”, which, according to “Europabüro” co-founder Siegfried Sellitsch, was founded at the time by “boys with blue eyes”. “That’s what former employees of Securitate were called,” the retired insurance manager told the APA, referring to the Romanian secret service.
Was a former UN Special Rapporteur
However, Georgescu-Roegen’s career at the “European Support Center” did not last long: without giving his Austrian partners plausible reasons, he had the club in Vienna dissolved in the autumn of 2013. At the same time, he remained loyal to the ‘Club of Rome’ – between July 2011 and March 2021 he was a member of the International Secretariat in Winterthur, Switzerland. Another activity of the Lower Austrian also had to do with Switzerland: between 2010 and 2012 he worked as UN special rapporteur on the consequences of environmental pollution for human rights.
It is unclear what Georgescus lived on in Austria
Although the family was able to purchase property in Lower Austria worth 530,000 euros without any mortgage loan when they moved there in 2011 and later resold it for larger sums in 2014 and 2017, it remains unclear what the Georgescus lived on during their decade . in Austria, given their voluntary efforts. It is not known that Calin Georgescu himself has no other job in Austria; according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna, he was never accredited as a diplomat there.
In any case, according to the news magazine “Profil”, his wife had a business license as a “human energy specialist” from August 2019 to March 2021 and offered corresponding services in a group practice in Schönau an der Triesting. However, the frequent Corona lockdowns from spring 2020 will likely have been detrimental to business. In July 2021, the couple sold their house in Günseldorf and turned their backs on Austria.
Mayor can’t say anything bad about Georgescu
“The reason – they told us – for his return was that he could not gain a foothold in his career,” said Günselsdorf Mayor Alfred Artmäuer. The Georgescus lived in his immediate vicinity and saw each other almost every day, especially in the summer. The local politician emphasized that he could not say anything bad about the family. The reclusive Calin Georgescu, who unlike his wife speaks only poor German, was never offensive, never made anti-Semitic statements and never positioned himself as a friend of Russia.
Former dictator called a “hero”.
He did this very well in his home country and wrote texts several times in which he glorified fascism. He described former dictator Ion Antonescu and fascist Corneliu Zelea Codreanu as “heroes.” Georgescu-Roegen is also considered an admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin and has already stated that if he wins the elections, Romanian aid to Ukraine and the transport of Ukrainian grain through Romania would be stopped. Sunday’s second round of elections is being followed with great concern, not only in Kiev and Brussels. The US has warned of “serious negative consequences” if the country turns away from the West as a result of Georgescu-Roegen’s election.
Source: Krone
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