The positions of
Plenipotentiary on European Integration to the Regional Governor (Pełnomocnik Wojewody ds. Europejskich) were gradually established in
Poland between 1996 and 1999 in all of Poland's then 49 regions, or
voivodeships (województwa). This step was taken in the wake of Poland's 1994 application for membership in the
European Union in order to prepare the Polish administration and society at large for the process of European integration and Poland's eventual joining the EU (which took place in 2004). In early 1996, Regional Governor of the
Opole Voivodeship (Wojewoda Opolski),
Ryszard Zembaczyński Ryszard () is the Polish equivalent of " Richard", and may refer to:
* Ryszard Andrzejewski (born 1976), Polish rap musician, songwriter and producer
* Ryszard Bakst (1926–1999), Polish and British pianist and piano teacher of Jewish/Polish/Russi ...
, appointed
Tomasz Kamusella as the first-ever Plenipotentiary of this kind.
[Integracja europejska a Śląsk Opolski uropean Integration and Opole Silesia(pp 6–12). 1997. ''Region Śląsk Opolski''. No 1. Opole, Poland: Ośrodek Informatyki WBD UW.]
References
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Politics of Poland
1996 in the European Union