Jacek Protasiewicz (born 5 June 1967 in Brzeg) 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.
Jan Władysław Rokita is a Polish liberal politician, a member of the Sejm, the lower chamber of the Polish parliament. He was chairman of the parliamentary club of the Civic Platform party from 2003 to 2005.
Janusz Antoni Lewandowski is a Polish politician and economist belonging to the Gdańsk liberals group, and a former member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the Committee on Budgets. On 27 November 2009 he obtained the post of Budget and Financial Programming Commissioner of the European Commission and is affiliated to the European People's Party (EPP). He was re-elected for the 8th term (2014–2019) of the European Parliament, as a member of the EPP group.
Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski is a Polish diplomat and PiS 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 is chairman of the Executive Board of the “Foundation College of Europe”, in charge of the Natolin campus of the College of Europe.
Poland has a multi-party political system. On the national level, Poland elects the head of state – the president – and a legislature. There are also various local elections, referendums and elections to 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.
Józef Pinior is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Lower Silesian Voivodship & Opole Voivodship with the Social Democracy of Poland, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Development.
Richard Henry Czarnecki is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Poland. He is a member of the Law and Justice, part of the European Conservatives and Reformists.
The Freedom Union was a liberal democratic political party in Poland.
Bogdan Michał Borusewicz is a Polish politician who served as the Marshal of the Polish Senate from 20 October 2005 to 11 November 2015. Borusewicz was a democratic opposition activist under the Communist regime, a member of the Polish parliament (Sejm) for three terms and first Senate Marshal to serve two terms in this office. He served as the Acting President of Poland for a few hours in 2010.
Ewa Bożena Kopacz is a Polish politician who has served as a Vice-President of the European Parliament since 2019. She previously was Marshal of the Sejm from 2011 to 2014, the first woman to hold the office, as well as Prime Minister of Poland from 2014 to 2015. In addition, Kopacz was Minister of Health from 2007 until 2011. Since 2001, she has been a member of Civic Platform, which she chaired from 2014 to 2016. Kopacz succeeded Donald Tusk as prime minister, becoming the second woman to hold the office after Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993). Her term as prime minister ended on 16 November 2015, when she was succeeded by Beata Szydło.
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.
Grzegorz Juliusz Schetyna is a Polish politician who has been Leader of Civic Platform and Leader of the Opposition from 26 January 2016 to 25 January 2020. He has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 2014 to 2015, Marshal of the Sejm from 2010 to 2011, Acting President of Poland 2010, Deputy Prime Minister of Poland from 2007 to 2009 and Minister of the Interior and Administration 2007 to 2009. He has been a Member of the Sejm from 1997.
Adam Stanisław Szejnfeld is a Polish politician. He was elected to the Sejm on 25 September 2005, getting 26,568 votes in 38 Piła district as a candidate from the Civic Platform list.
Tomasz Wojciech Misiak is a Polish politician and businessman. He co-founded Work Service, the biggest Polish employment agency and served as a senator, representing Civic Platform.
Artur Jarosław Zasada, born 5 June 1969 in Zielona Gora, Poland, is a politician and a former Member of the European Parliament. A former member of Poland Together and the European Conservatives and Reformists group, having been elected for Civic Platform.
The Union of European Democrats is a liberal political party in Poland. It is led by Elżbieta Bińczycka.
Andrzej Halicki is a Polish politician of the Civic Platform (PO) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since the 2019 elections.
Piotr Borys is a Polish politician, who has served as a local government official, member of the board and deputy marshal of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, as Member of the Seventh European Parliament, and as member of the 9th Sejm.
Szymon Hołownia's Poland 2050 is a centrist to centre-right political party in Poland.
Agnieszka Dominika Pomaska, is a Polish politician who has been a member of the Sejm since 2009, serving in the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th terms.