The president of the Council of Ministers,colloquially referred to as the prime minister,is the head of the cabinet and the head of government of Poland. The responsibilities and traditions of the office stem from the creation of the contemporary Polish state,and the office is defined in the Constitution of 1997. According to the Constitution,the president nominates and appoints the prime minister,who will then propose the composition of the Cabinet. Fourteen days following their appointment,the prime minister must submit a programme outlining the government's agenda to the Sejm,requiring a vote of confidence. Conflicts stemming from both interest and powers have arisen between the offices of President and Prime Minister in the past.
The president of Poland,officially the president of the Republic of Poland,is the head of state of Poland. Their rights and obligations are determined in the Constitution of Poland. The president heads the executive branch. In addition,the president has the right to dissolve parliament in certain cases,can veto legislation and represents Poland in the international arena.
Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a Polish politician and journalist. He served as the President of Poland from 1995 to 2005. He was born in Białogard,and during communist rule,he was active in the Socialist Union of Polish Students and was the Minister for Sport in the Communist government during the 1980s. After the fall of Communism,he became a leader of the left-wing Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland,a successor to the former ruling Polish United Workers' Party,and a co-founder of the Democratic Left Alliance.
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.
The director of national intelligence (DNI) is a senior,cabinet-level United States government official,required by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to serve as executive head of the United States Intelligence Community (IC) and to direct and oversee the National Intelligence Program (NIP). All IC agencies report directly to the DNI. The DNI also serves,upon invitation,as an advisor to the president of the United States,the National Security Council and the Homeland Security Council on all intelligence matters. The DNI,supported by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),produces the President's Daily Brief (PDB),a top-secret document including intelligence from all IC agencies,handed each morning to the president of the United States.
Marek Marian Belka is a Polish professor of economics and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Poland and Finance Minister of Poland in two governments. He is a former Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) European Department and former Head of Narodowy Bank Polski. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
Lech Aleksander Kaczyński was a Polish politician who served as the city mayor of Warsaw from 2002 until 2005,and as President of Poland from 2005 until his death in 2010. Before his tenure as president,he previously served as President of the Supreme Audit Office from 1992 to 1995 and later Minister of Justice and Public Prosecutor General in Jerzy Buzek's cabinet from 2000 until his dismissal in July 2001.
Jarosław Aleksander Kaczyński is a Polish politician who is currently serving as leader of the Law and Justice party,which he co-founded in 2001 with his twin brother,Lech Kaczyński,who served as president of Poland until his death in 2010.
Anna Elżbieta Fotyga is a Polish politician who currently serves as a Member of the European Parliament,and is the Secretary-General of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party. She has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland,in the successive cabinets of Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz and Jarosław Kaczyński from (2006–2007) and Chief of the Chancellery of the President (2007–2008).
Ryszard Kaczorowski,GCMG was a Polish statesman. From 1989 to 1990,he served as the last President of Poland-in-exile. He succeeded Kazimierz Sabbat,and resigned his post following Poland's regaining independence from the Soviet sphere of influence and the election of Lech Wałęsa as the first democratically elected President of Poland since before the Second World War. He died on 10 April 2010 in the plane crash near Smolensk,Russia,along with the President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and other senior government officials.
Bronisław Maria Komorowski is a Polish politician and historian who served as President of Poland from 2010 to 2015.
Bogdan MichałBorusewicz 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.
Mariusz Maszkiewicz is a Polish diplomat;ambassador to Belarus (1998–2002) and Georgia.
Mariusz Błaszczak(listen) is a Polish politician,historian,and local government representative. Since 9 January 2018,Blaszczak has been the Minister of National Defence of Poland.
Cameron Munter is a retired diplomat,academic,and executive who now works as a global consultant. He was President and CEO of the EastWest Institute (EWI) in New York from 2015 to 2019,directing conflict resolution projects in Russia,China,the Middle East,South Asia,and the Balkans. He is currently a senior fellow of the CEVRO Institute in Prague and the Atlantic Council in Washington,and serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards.
The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland,instituted in 1989,is a governmental institution composed of the immediate staff of the President of Poland that assists and is governed by the President. The objective of the Chancellery is to provide assistance to the President in its multiple echelons of staff,which include the Presidential cabinet and the Chancellery of National Security. The Chief of the Chancellery heads the institution;the Chief is appointed by and immediately responsible to the President.
Sławomir Stanisław Skrzypek was the President of the National Bank of Poland (NBP) from 2007 until his death in 2010. He died in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash,when a plane transporting a number of Polish notables,including the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski,crashed en route to a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Katyńmassacre.
Elżbieta Renata Jakubiak is a Polish politician,sports and tourism minister in the government of Jaroslaw Kaczynski,was head of the Polish President's Cabinet with the rank of secretary of state,and deputy to the Sejm sixth term of office.
Events during the year 2010 in Poland.
Ludwig Hermann Karl Hahn was a German SS-Standartenführer,Nazi official and convicted war criminal. He held numerous positions with the German police and security services over the course of his career with the Schutzstaffel (SS).
