the PNL and siding with the dissident faction around Gheorghe Flutur and Theodor Stolojan (the Liberal Democratic Party). On January 25, 2007, the CNSAS took a second vote on the matter of his past activities, and established that he had been responsible for political policing, causing Coșea to file a complaint. He ultimately resigned from the PNL on March 14, 2007, indicating that he had felt marginalized inside its group of MEPs. Despite this move, Coșea denied that he had plans to join the other Romanian Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty members inside the Greater Romania Party. He also dismissed the notion that the ITS represented a far right ideology, and argued that his presence would be a sign of actual moderation. This came at a time when the PNL was reviewing an internal directive to exclude former Securitate collaborators. Selected works Economie - manual pentru învățământul liceal ("Economics - Textbook for High School Teaching"), Editura Didactică și Pedagogică, 1994 Jurnal în tranziție ("Diary of the Transition"), Editura Expert, Bucharest, 1995 with Silviu Cerna, Lucian Croitoru, Ion Davidovici, and Daniel Dăianu: Oeconomica, Editura Rosetti, Bucharest, 2005 Notes References Profile at the Chamber of Deputies Profile at RomaniaOnline "Șerban Mihăilescu și Mircea Coșea - primii ofițeri acoperiți ai Securității descoperiți de CNSAS" ("Șerban Mihăilescu and Mircea Coșea - the First Undercover Officers to Be Uncovered by the CNSAS"), in Gândul, October 25, 2006] "Mircea Coșea aderă la grupul lui Flutur" ("Mircea Coșea Adheres to Flutur's Grouping"), in Evenimentul Zilei, November 20, 2006 "Mircea Coșea sare în bărcuța lui Le Pen" ("Mircea Coșea Jumps in Le Pen's Boat"), in Cotidianul, March 15, 2007 Adina Anghelescu, Dan Badea, "Cu mâinile curate" ("Hands Clean"), interview with Dumitru Gheorghe Mircea Coșea, in Gardianul, August 28, 2006 Mirela Corlățan, "Coșea și Miki, securiști de bine" ("Coșea and Miki, Reliable Securitate Cadres"), in Cotidianul, October 25, 2006 Andreea Gheorghe, "Titlurile de proprietate, cadou oferit jucătorilor la bursă" ("Property Deeds, a Present Offered to Stock Market Players"), in Capital, August 4, 2005 Florin Negruțiu, "Coșea o șterge din din PNL și devine euroextremist" ("Coșea Evades the PNL and Becomes a Euro-Extremist"), in Gândul, March 15, 2007 Marius Pandele, "Norii negri ai cuponiadei" ("The Black Clouds of the Couponiad"), in România Liberă, September 21, 2006 Anca Simina, "Securitatea a hotărât soarta tranziției", Evenimentul Zilei, August 29, 2006 External links Mircea Coșea's website European Parliament profile European Parliament official photo Articles by