George Copos

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Gheorghe (George) Copos (born 27 March 1953, Tăşnad, Satu Mare County) is a Romanian businessman and politician.

He is the owner of a chain of confectioner's shops, a chain of electronics shops, several hotels, as well as the football club Rapid Bucureşti.

Copos is a member of the Conservative Party and since December 2004, he is a vice-prime-minister and State Minister in charge with coordination of the activities in the field of business environment and small and medium-sized entreprises in the Tăriceanu government.

On January 21, 2006, he resigned from the Conservative Party amid a corruption scandal. He has maintained, however, his function as vice prime-minister and State Minister in the government. He also resignend from the government in June 2006, maintaining his function as a senator.

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(Romanian) Gheorghe Copos' blog

Romanian football portal

v • d • e First Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet (29 December 2004 – 5 April 2007)

Prime Minister	Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu

Minister of State	Adriean Videanu/Gheorghe Seculici/Gheorghe Pogea (Co-ordinating the Economic Domain) • George Copos/Bogdan Pascu (Co-ordinating the Buisiness, and Small and Medium Enterprises Domain) • Béla Markó (Co-ordinating Culture, Education, European Integration)

Ministers	Monica Macovei (Justice) • Ionel Popescu/Sebastian Vlădescu (Public Finance) • Gheorghe Barbu (Labor) • Ene Dinga/Anca Boagiu (European Integration) • Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu/Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu (Foreign Affairs) • Vasile Blaga (Interior) • Codruţ Şereş/ Varujan Vosganian (Economy) • Teodor Atanasiu/Sorin Frunzăverde (Defense) • Gheorghe Flutur/Dan Motreanu (Agriculture) • Gheorghe Dobre/Radu Berceanu (Transport) • Mircea Miclea/Mihail Hărdău (Education) • Mona Muscă/Adrian Iorgulescu (Culture) • Mircea Cinteză/Eugen Nicolăescu (Health) • Zsolt Nagy (Communications and IT) • Sulfina Barbu (Environment)

Ministers Delegate	Mihai Voicu/Radu Stroe (General Secretariat of the Government) • Cristian David (International Financing Programs and European Community Acquis) • Sorin Vicol (Control) • Bogdan Olteanu/Mihai Voicu (Relations with Parliament) • László Borbély (Transport) • Iuliu Winkler (Commerce)

PNL minister • PD minister • UDMR minister • PC minister • Independent minister