Paweł Kowal

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Paweł Robert Kowal (born July 22, 1975 in Rzeszów ) is a Polish politician and has been a member of the European Parliament since the 2009 European elections . Before that he was a member of the Sejm from 2005 to 2009 and State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2007.

Paweł Robert Kowal (2014)

Life

Kowal is a graduate of the 1st Stanisław Konarski General Education Lyceum in Rzeszów. In 1999 he finished his studies in history at the University of Warsaw . From 1996 to 1998 he studied under the direction of Prof. Krystyna Kersten at the Collegium Invisibile in Warsaw . He made study trips to Yakutia , Buryatia and Khakassia . After 1999 he was an assistant in the Institute for Political Studies of the Polska Akademia Nauk (Polish Academy of Sciences).

He was active in the Rzeszów Youth Council, including as chairman. From 1996 to 1998 he headed the Jagielloński Club and was also at the Mirosław Dzielski Center in Cracow . From 1997 to 2005 he worked at the Center for Political Thought, where, among other things, he directed the program “The Relationship of the Polish State to Poles in the East”. Since 2005 he has been an associate member of the World Association of Soldiers of the Armia Krajowa (Polish Home Army - AK). He cooperates with the Eastern European College Jan Nowak-Jeziorański in Wroclaw , since 2007 as a member of the College.

From 1998 to 2000, Kowal worked in the Prime Minister's office, where he was head of the Foreign Affairs Department. From 2000 to 2001 he was Director of the Department for International Cooperation and European Integration in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as an expert on Ostpolitik at the Center for International Relations. From 2003 to 2005 he was the director of the Mazovian Center for Culture and Art. After 2003 he was an expert in the Warsaw Rising Museum and participated in the creation of the concept of this museum. In 2005 he headed the press office of the mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczyński .

From 2002 to 2005 he was chairman of the Warsaw District Council of Ochota . In the 2005 parliamentary elections , he was elected to the Sejm for the constituency of Chrzanów on the List of Law and Justice (PiS). There he was chairman of the commission for culture and deputy chairman of the PiS parliamentary group until 2006. From July 20, 2006 to November 22, 2007 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jarosław Kaczyński's government . In the 2007 Sejm elections , he was confirmed as a member of the PiS with 26,184 votes. He was deputy chairman of the PiS parliamentary group and deputy chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In the European elections in Poland in 2009 , he was the European Parliament voted, where he, like the rest of PiS deputies of the faction European Conservatives and Reformists joined (ECR). He heads the delegation in the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Security and Defense.

Together with three other MEPs, Kowal left the PiS on November 16, 2010 and was involved in founding the new Polska jest Najważniejsza (PJN, German: Poland is the most important) party. However, he remained a member of the ECR group. From 2011 to 2013 he was chairman of PJN. The party eventually disbanded, and its members, together with a group led by former PO politician Jarosław Gowin, founded the Polska Razem party . Kowal has been chairman of the party council since then.

He is one of the 89 people from the European Union against whom Russia imposed an entry ban in May 2015 .

Awards and honors

Web links

Commons : Paweł Kowal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gowin allies itself with PJN from: polen-heute.de of October 4, 2013
  2. ↑ http://polskarazem.pl/wladze-krajowe/
  3. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Entry bans: Russia accuses EU politicians of showing behavior. In: Spiegel Online. May 31, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  4. ^ RUS: Russian Visa Blocking List. (PDF 23 KB) In: yle.fi. May 26, 2015, accessed June 1, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Podziękowanie za zasługi w umacnianiu wolności / Ordery i odznaczenia / Aktuellności / Archiwum Bronisława Komorowskiego / Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej. Retrieved October 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Diário da República, 2nd série - N.º 40 - 26 de Fevereiro de 2009. 2009, accessed on October 27, 2019 (Portuguese).
  7. ↑ УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ № 739/2007 - Офiцiйне представництво Президента України. July 11, 2014, accessed October 27, 2019 (Ukrainian).
  8. ^ Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego. Retrieved October 27, 2019 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Kowal, Paweł
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kowal, Paweł Robert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish politician, member of the Sejm, MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Rzeszów