Grażyna Staniszewska

Grażyna Staniszewska (2014)

Grażyna Ewa Staniszewska (born November 2, 1949 in Biała Krakowska ) is a Polish politician of the Partia Demokratyczna .

After completing her studies in Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University, Staniszewska was able to call herself a Polonist. She worked in Bielsko-Biała as a teacher at the general education lyceum, as the head of the cultural center and as a trainer as well as an employee of the REDOR research and development center. At the beginning of the 1980s she was a member of the Solidarność board and regional council in the Beskydy Foothills region , in 1981 she was co-founder and head of the Wszechnica of Podbeskidzie. However, after martial law was declared, she was first interned and then imprisoned. She remained loyal to Solidarność, where she was now a member of the underground leadership in the Beskydy foothills and the national executive commission. She later became a board member of the Unia Demokratyczna and from 1992 to the Unia Wolności . In 1989 she was a member of the round table . From 1989 to 2001 she was a member of the Sejm , after which she was a member of the Senate until 2004 . From 2004 to 2009 she sat in the European Parliament .

Staniszewska was also chair of the Council of the Economic Education Foundation in Warsaw and coordinator of Interkl @ sa , a nationwide program to prepare young people for the information society. She received the Order of St. Stephen for the development of cooperation between Poland and Hungary .

In 1998 she tried unsuccessfully to prevent the dissolution of the Bielsko-Biała Voivodeship and the connection to the Silesian Voivodeship .

Web links

• Entry of Grażyna Staniszewska in the European Parliament 's database of deputies

Individual evidence

1. ^ Senatorowie - Grażyna Ewa Staniszewska. In: senat.gov.pl. Retrieved March 26, 2019 (Polish). 
2. ↑ Ewa Furtak: 10 lat temu odeszło województwo bielskie. bielskobiala.wyborcza.pl , accessed January 8, 2009 (Polish).