From 1989 through 1991,Poland engaged in a democratic transition which put an end to the Polish People's Republic and led to the foundation of a democratic government,known as the Third Polish Republic,following the First and Second Polish Republic. After ten years of democratic consolidation,Poland joined NATO in 1999 and the European Union on 1 May 2004.
Piero Franco Rodolfo Fassino is an Italian politician with the Democratic Party. He was Mayor of Turin from 2011 until 2016 and is a former national secretary of the Democrats of the Left party.
Rebecca Harms is a German politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2004 until 2019. She is a member of the Alliance '90/The Greens,part of the European Green Party. From 2010 until 2016 she served as president of The Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament.
Juan Fernando López Aguilar is a Spanish jurist and politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since 2009. He served as Minister of Justice in the government of JoséLuis Rodríguez Zapatero. He also represented Las Palmas in the Congress of Deputies between 1996 and 2007 and between 2008 and 2009.
Bogdan Adam Klich is a former Minister of National Defence of Poland. Bogdan Klich was interned in 1981 during the martial law set by the communist regime. Until November 16,2007,he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Lesser Poland Voivodeship &Swietokrzyskie Voivodeship with the Civic Platform,part of the European People's Party and he sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. Senator since November 2011. Since 2002,Klich has been a lecturer at the Department of European Studies at Jagiellonian University. Lecturer at the Cracow University of Economics since the academic year 2013/2014. The author of numerous publications concerning foreign policy and international security.
Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the DS &OP with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union,part of the Socialist Group. Her family name is Ulatowska,which she has changed after marriage with her husband.
Jacek Protasiewicz is a Polish politician. 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 Kettering Foundation based in Dayton,Ohio. He was a local leader of a liberal party (KL-D) in 1994 and then 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 - a party led by Donald Tusk - later Prime Minister of Poland and Head of the European Council. First time elected to a regional assembly in 1998 and then to the Polish Parliament in 2001. In 2004 he was elected to the European Parliament where he served as Chair of Delegation for Belarus (2007-2012) and as the Vice-President 2012-2014 in charge for relations with parliaments of Eastern Partnership countries as well as with NATO Parliamentary Assembly. He was the Head of the presidential election campaign of Donald Tusk in 2005 and the Civic Platform election campaign in 2011. In 2015 elected again to Polish Parliament and re-elected in 2019. Nowadays he serves as a Deputy Head of the Polish Coalition caucus in Polish Parliament and member of Committee for European Union Affairs and Committee for Public Finance.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is the parliamentary arm of the Council of Europe,a 46-nation international organisation dedicated to upholding human rights,democracy and the rule of law.
Arkadiusz Mularczyk is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005,getting 9,566 votes in 14 Nowy Sącz district as a candidate from the Law and Justice list.
Sławomir Witold Nitras is a Polish politician,political scientist,member of Civic Platform (PO) and a member of the Sejm since 2015. He currently serves as Minister of Sport and Tourism.
Zbigniew Tadeusz Ziobro is a Polish politician. He served as the Minister of Justice of the Republic of Poland in the Cabinet of Mateusz Morawiecki until 27 November 2023. He previously served in the same role from October 2005 to November 2007,simultaneously serving as the Public Prosecutor General. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005 in the 13th Kraków district,running on the Law and Justice party list. He received over 120,000 votes in the parliamentary election,the highest percentage constituency results in the election.
Sidonia Elżbieta Jędrzejewska is a Polish politician and MEP. She was the Undersecretary of State in the Office of the Committee for European Integration in Poland (2008–2009).
Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician,former Undersecretary of State for European Affairs in the Matteo Renzi and Paolo Gentiloni governments.
Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma is a Dutch politician of the D66 party,who served as a member of the House of Representatives between 20 September 2012 and 5 December 2023. He was first elected in the 2012 Dutch general election.
Christos Stylianides is a Greek Cypriot politician who since September 13,2023 serves as Minister of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy of Greece. From September 2021 to May 2023 served as Greece's first Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection. On June 26 he was elected Member of the Hellenic Parliament with the governing New Democracy Party (ND). He has previously served as the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management from 2014 until 2019. In 2014,he was also appointed by the European Council as the European Union's Ebola Coordinator. He was also elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the May 2014 European elections where he served until 31 October 2014.
The Polish Constitutional Tribunal crisis has been an ongoing political conflict in Poland starting in the second half of 2015 over the appointment of five of the 15 judges of the Constitutional Tribunal.
Nathalie Loiseau is a French politician,diplomat and academic administrator who has served as a Member of European Parliament since 2019. Previously she was director of the École nationale d'administration (ENA) from 2012 to 2017 and served as the French Minister for European Affairs from 21 June 2017 to 27 March 2019. She was the top candidate of the La République En Marche electoral list in the 2019 European elections.
RafałKazimierz Trzaskowski is a Polish politician and the current city mayor of Warsaw. He is also a political scientist specializing in European studies.
Szymon Andrzej Szynkowski vel Sęk is a Polish politician,member of Sejm,between 2018 and 2022 deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Poland in charge of Polish Diaspora,European Policy and Public Diplomacy,since 2022 Minister for European Union Affairs. He was appointed Minister of the Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in November 2023.
Alin Cristian Mituța is a Romanian politician of REPER who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2020.
