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.
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.
Jan Zahradil is a Czech politician for the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) who has been Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the Czech Republic entered the European Union in 2004. Zahradil also served as Member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 to 2004.
Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk is a Polish politician. He was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Masovian Voivodeship with the Law and Justice party from 2004 to 2009,and again between 2014 and 2023. He was a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. Prior to 2006,Kuźmiuk was a leading member of the Polish People's Party.
Barbara Kudrycka is a professor of administrative law and public administration science and a Polish politician who has served as the Minister of Science and Higher Education in the cabinet of Donald Tusk from 2007 to 2013.
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.
Marie Arena is a Belgian politician who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2014. She is a member of the Socialist Party,part of the Party of European Socialists.
Sandro Gozi is an Italian politician formerly of the Democratic Party who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2020. He was a member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies from 2006 to 2018,and was elected to the European Parliament in 2019,representing France on the list of Emmanuel Macron's LREM party.
Sjoerd Wiemer Sjoerdsma is a Dutch politician of the D66 party serving as a member of the House of Representatives since 20 September 2012,after having been 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.
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.
Daniel Freund is a German politician who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since July 2019. He is a member of the Alliance 90/The Greens at the national level and sits with the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
Axel Helmut Schäfer is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Born in Frankfurt,Hesse,he has been serving as a member of the Bundestag from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2002.
Alin Cristian Mituța is a Romanian politician of REPER who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2020.
