Danuta Huebner
Danuta Maria Hübner (born April 8, 1948 in Nisko , Poland ) is a Polish economist, politician of the liberal-conservative Civic Platform (PO) and a member of the European Parliament since 2009 . Previously, she was EU Commissioner for Regional Policy, among other things .
Life
In 1971 Danuta Huebner received her diploma in economics from the Warsaw University of Economics . Afterwards she was a scholarship holder and visiting scholar at foreign universities several times. In 1974 she received her doctorate, in 1980 she received her habilitation . She has been a professor of economics since 1992 . She is married and has two daughters.
Political career
From 1970 to 1987 Danuta Hübner was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party , but did not actually become politically active until 1994. From 1994 to 1996 she was State Secretary in the Polish Ministry of Industry. In 1997 she became head of the office of the Polish President and held this office until 1998. From 1998 to 2001 she was Deputy Executive Secretary in the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. From 2001 to 2003 she was State Secretary in the Polish Foreign Ministry, and from 2003 to 2004 she was Minister for European Affairs herself.
From the time Poland joined the European Union on May 1, 2004, Danuta Hübner was European Trade Commissioner together with the French Pascal Lamy . On October 18, 2004, she became responsible for regional policy in the new commission . In the 2009 European elections she was elected to the European Parliament with 311,018 votes and therefore had to resign from her commission office; her successor was her compatriot Paweł Samecki . In parliament, however, she remained active in the same policy area and was elected chairman of the regional development committee. In September 2010 she was involved in the establishment of the so-called Spinelli Group , which advocates European federalism . She was re-elected in the 2014 European elections and has since been chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs .
Awards
- 1996 holder of the Polish order Polonia Restituta (knight).
- 1997 holder of the Portuguese Order of Merit .
- 2011 Kaiser Maximilian Prize
Web links
- Interview with Danuta Hübner: "Structural funding will be completely reorganized from 2007" (taz, February 4, 2006)
- Entry on Danuta Huebner in the database of the European Parliament
Michel Barnier (until April 2004) | Frits Bolkestein | Philippe Busquin | David Byrne | Anna Diamantopoulou (until March 2004) | Franz Fischler | Neil Kinnock | Pascal Lamy | Erkki Liikanen (until July 2004) | Mario Monti | Poul Nielson | Loyola de Palacio | Chris Patten | Romano Prodi | Viviane Reding | Michaele Schreyer | Pedro Solbes (until April 2004) | Günter Verheugen | António Vitorino | Margot Wallström
Additions:
Joaquín Almunia (from April 2004) |
Péter Balázs (from May 2004) |
Jacques Barrot (from April 2004) |
Joseph Borġ (from May 2004) |
Stavros Dimas (from March 2004) |
Ján Figeľ (from May 2004) |
Dalia Grybauskaitė (from May 2004) |
Danuta Hübner (from May 2004) |
Siim Kallas (from May 2004) |
Sandra Kalniete (from May 2004) |
Márkos Kyprianoú (from May 2004) |
Janez Potočnik (from May 2004) |
Olli Rehn (from July 2004) |
Pavel Telička (from May 2004)
Joaquín Almunia | José Manuel Barroso | Jacques Barrot | Joseph Borġ | Stavros Dimas | Benita Ferrero-Waldner | Ján Figeľ (until October 2009) | Mariann Fischer Boel | Franco Frattini (until May 2008) | Dalia Grybauskaitė (until July 2009) | Danuta Hübner (until July 2009) | Siim Kallas | László Kovács | Neelie Kroes | Márkos Kyprianoú (until March 2008) | Peter Mandelson (until October 2008) | Louis Michel (until July 2009) | Andris Piebalgs | Janez Potočnik | Charlie McCreevy | Viviane Reding | Olli Rehn | Vladimír Špidla | Günter Verheugen | Margot Wallström
Additions:
Catherine Ashton (from October 2008) |
Karel De Gucht (from July 2009) |
Meglena Kunewa (from January 2007) |
Leonard Orban (from January 2007) |
Paweł Samecki (from July 2009) |
Maroš Šefčovič (from October 2009) |
Algirdas Šemeta (from July 2009) |
Antonio Tajani (from May 2008) |
Androulla Vassiliou (from March 2008)
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Leszek Miller | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz | Waldemar Dąbrowski (from 2002) | Jerzy Hausner | Zbigniew Kaniewski (from 2004) | Michał Kleiber | Grzegorz Kurczuk (from 2002) | Krystyna Łybacka | Lech Nikolski (from 2003) | Wojciech Olejniczak (from 2003) | Marek Pol | Andrzej Raczko (from 2003) | Leszek Sikorski (from 2003) | Czesław Śleziak (from 2003) | Jerzy Szmajdziński
Eliminated:
Marek Balicki (2003) |
Marek Belka (2001-2002) |
Andrzej Celiński (2001–2002) |
Sławomir Cytrycki (2003) |
Piotr Czyżewski (2003-2004) |
Danuta Huebner (2003-2004) |
Krzysztof Janik (2001-2004) |
Wiesław Kaczmarek (2001–2003) |
Jarosław Kalinowski (2001–2003) |
Grzegorz Kołodko (2002–2003) |
Mariusz Łapiński (2001–2003) |
Józef Oleksy (2004) |
Jacek Piechota (2001-2003) |
Barbara Piwnik (2001-2002) |
Adam Tański (2003) |
Stanisław Żelichowski (2001-2003)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huebner, Danuta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hübner, Danuta Maria (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish economist and politician, MEP, EU Commissioner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nisko , Poland |