Nicu Popescu
Nicu Popescu | |
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Official portrait, 2025 | |
| Special Envoy for European Affairs and Strategic Partnerships | |
| Assumed office 10 November 2025 | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Member of the Moldovan Parliament | |
| In office 22 October 2025 – 1 November 2025 | |
| Succeeded by | Angela Munteanu-Pojoga |
| Parliamentary group | Party of Action and Solidarity |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Moldova | |
| In office 6 August 2021 – 26 January 2024 Serving with | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Prime Minister | Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Popșoi |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration | |
| In office 6 August 2021 – 26 January 2024 | |
| President | Maia Sandu |
| Prime Minister | Natalia Gavrilița Dorin Recean |
| Preceded by | Aureliu Ciocoi |
| Succeeded by | Mihai Popșoi (as Minister of Foreign Affairs) |
| In office 11 June 2019 – 14 November 2019 | |
| President | Igor Dodon |
| Prime Minister | Maia Sandu |
| Preceded by | Tudor Ulianovschi |
| Succeeded by | Aureliu Ciocoi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 April 1981 |
| Party | Independent |
| Spouse | Elena Gnedina |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | Moscow State Institute of International Relations (BA) Central European University (MA, PhD) |
| Profession | author, diplomat |
| Awards | Order of the Republic Officer of the Legion of Honor (France) |
| Website | http://www.nicupopescu.eu |
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Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu (born 25 April 1981) is a Moldovan diplomat, author, and politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova from 6 August 2021 until 26 January 2024 in the Gavrilita and then Recean cabinets. He was also Moldova's Foreign Minister from 11 June to 14 November 2019 in the Sandu Cabinet. He is now a distinguished fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and visiting professor at Sciences Po-Paris. With Tiago Antunes, former state secretary for EU affairs in Portugal, he currently co-chairs an ECFR task force on 'lessons-learned' from the war in Ukraine consisting of several European foreign policy personalities.