Jacek Protasiewicz (born 5 June 1967 in

Brzeg Brzeg (; Latin: ''Alta Ripa'', German: ''Brieg'', Silesian German: ''Brigg'', , ) is a town in southwestern Poland with 34,778 inhabitants (December 2021) and the capital of Brzeg County. It is situated in Silesia in the Opole Voivodeship on the ...

) is a

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. Graduated from Wroclaw University where in the 80s of 20th century was a leader of anti communist student organization (NZS). In 1995 was an international fellow at the

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based in

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. He was a local leader of a liberal party (KL-D) in 1994 and than the Union of Freedom - the party led by a first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland. In 2001 he was a cofounder and a local leader of

Civic Platform Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It w ...

- a party led by

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- later

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and Head of the

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. First time elected to a regional assembly in 1998 and than to

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in 2001. In 2004 was elected to the

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where served as served as Chair of Delegation for Belarus (2007-2012) and as the Vice-President 2012-2014 in charge for relations with parliaments of

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countries as well as with

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. He was a Head of presidential election campaign of

in 2005 and the Civic Platform election campaign in 2011. In 2015 elected again to

and re-elected in 2019. Nowadays he serves as a Deputy Head of the Polish Coalition caucus in

and member of Committee for European Union Affairs and Committee for

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Education

* 1994: Graduate of the

University of Wrocław , ''Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau'' (before 1945) , free_label = Specialty programs , free = , colors = Blue , website uni.wroc.pl The University of Wrocław ( pl, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, U ...

Career

* 1990-1992: Press spokesman for the Voivodship of Wrocław * 1992-1994: Member of the National Council and Chairman of the Wrocław branch of the Liberal-Democratic Congress (KLD) * 1994-1995: assistant to the Chairman of the Wrocław

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* 1994-2000: Member of the National Council of the Freedom Union (UW) * 1997-2000: Chairman of the Wrocław region of the UW * 1998-2001: Chairman of the Committee on Tourism, Sport and Recreation (1998-2001) and the UW Union of Councillors in the Regional Council of the Voivodship of Lower Silesia * 1999-2001: director of the Bureau for the Promotion of the City and Cooperation with Other Countries, Office of the City of Wrocław (1996-2001) and press spokesman for the Wrocław City Council * 2000-2001: Member and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Polish Tourist Organisation * 2000-2002: Vice-Chairman of the Lower Silesian Tourist Organisation * 2001-2004: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic * 2001: Member of the National Council of the Citizens' Platform (PO) * 2003-2004: MEP - Observer in the EP (EPP-ED and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs * 2003: Chairman of the PO in

Wrocław Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...

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* * * 1967 births Living people MEPs for Poland 2004 Civic Platform MEPs MEPs for Poland 2004–2009 MEPs for Poland 2009–2014 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023 {{Poland-MEP-stub