Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
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| Member of the European Parliament for Łódź |
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Assumed office 20 July 2004 |
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September 19, 1948 Łódź, Poland |
| Political party | Independent Formerly Civic Platform/EPP |
Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski (born September 19, 1948 in Łódź) is a Polish diplomat and politician. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since June 2004. He served as Vice President of the European Parliament (2004–2007).
Saryusz-Wolski comes from a family of the Jelita coat of arms. His father, Emil, a chemical engineer, was stationed with Polish troops in Britain during the Second World War, while his mother, Eryka, worked as a landscape gardener.
He graduate at the First High School "Nicolaus Copernicus" in Łódź and he obtains a degree in economics from the University of Łódź. He also completed postgraduate studies at the Centre Européen Universitaire in Nancy, France. In the 1970s he was a lecturer on the European Communities at the University of Łódź and in the 80s he was an assistant professor in the Department of Socialist Political Economy of the University of Łódź. At the turn of the 80s and 90s led the Center for European Studies at the University of Lodz.
Saryusz-Wolski was nominated the first Polish plenipotentiary for European integration and foreign aids (pełnomocnik ds. integracji europejskiej i pomocy zagranicznej) when this office was created in 1991 by the prime minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki. He held this position till 1996, despite the frequent government changes. He returned to the government in 2000, when the prime minister Jerzy Buzek has nominated him a secretary in the European Integration Committee (Komitet Integracji Europejskiej). Jacek Saryusz-Wolski played an important role in the negotiations in Nice in 2000. In 2001, he unsuccessfully ran for the Polish Senate on behalf of Blok Senat 2001.
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