Jan Marian Olbrycht (born 21 September 1952, in Rybnik) is a
Polish
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politician
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Member of the European Parliament
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European People's Party
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* 1984: Doctor of Sociology, Jagiellonian University
* Lecturer
Political career
Career in national politics
* 2002-2004: Chairman of the Policy Council of the Social Movement
* since 2004: Member of the National Council of the Citizens' Platform
* 1990-1998: Mayor and member of the
town council
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Republic of Ireland
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in Cieszyn
* 1998-2004: Regional Councillor of the Silesian Voivodeship
* 1998-2002: Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship
* 1995-2001: Vice-Chairman of the Council of European Municipalities and Regions
* 2000-2004: Member of the Organisation of the Assembly of European Regions (ARE)
* 2004: Member of the World Council of United Cities and Local Governments
* 2000-2004: Member of the National Council for Regional Policy
* since 2003: Member of the Committee for National Spatial Planning,
Polish Academy of Sciences
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(PAN)
Member of the European Parliament, 2004–present
Olbrycht has been a
Member of the European Parliament
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Margarida Marques
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) on the European Union's Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021–2027.
In addition to his committee assignments, Olbrycht has been part of the parliament's delegations for relations with
China
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(2004-2009);
Albania
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,
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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,
Serbia
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,
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and
Kosovo
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(2009-2014); the countries of Southeast Asia and the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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(2014-2019); and
Canada
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(since 2019). He also chairs the URBAN Intergroup and is a member of the European Internet Forum.
Following the
2019 elections
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, Olbrycht was part of a cross-party working group in charge of drafting the European Parliament's four-year work program on digitization.
Within the centre-right European People's Party Group (EPP) group, Olbrycht is one of the deputies of chairman
Manfred Weber
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. In 2021, he was appointed to the group's task force for proposing changes to its rules of procedure to allow for “the possibility of the collective termination of membership of a group of Members rather than just individual membership”, alongside
Esteban González Pons
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Married, and w ...
,
Othmar Karas
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,
Esther de Lange
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Knight
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's Cross of the
Order of Polonia Restituta
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* Mahajana Eksath Peramuna, a political party in Sri Lanka
* Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (1956), a former political alliance in Sri Lanka
* Maison européenne de la photographie, a photography centre ...
Award in the economic and monetary affairs category (2018)
See also
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2004 European Parliament election in Poland
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