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Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly |
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Professor of technical sciences, actively engaged in public work. Prime Minister of Poland (1997-2001). |
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Honorary doctorates of the Universities of Dortmund, Seoul and Isparta, the Silesian University of Technology and the Opole University of Technology. University lecturer of long standing at Opole, Gliwice and Częstochowa, researcher at the Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Gliwice. Research stay at the University of Cambridge (1972). Representative of Poland at the International Energy Agency - Programme of Greenhouse Gas Effect (1992-1997). Organiser and chairman of an international network of 19 institutions working on energy and environmental protection (1996). 2002-2004, Vice-Chancellor of Polonia University in Częstochowa and founder of the Polonia School of Diplomacy. Author of some 200 research papers, over a dozen other works, three patents in the fields of environmental protection, power and process engineering. |
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Starting in 1980, member of the independent, self-governing trade union 'NSZZ Solidarność', chairman of the 1st National Congress of Delegates of 'Solidarność' in 1981. After 1989, chaired the 4th, 5th and 6th 'Solidarność' Congresses. |
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Elected to the Sejm in 1997. As Prime Minister, in 1999, took Poland into NATO and prepared the country for integration into the European Union (including decentralisation of the State - consolidation of the role of local self-government). In 1998, began accession negotiations. Represented the Social Movement for Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) and Poland in the PPE-DE (1999). |
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MEP of the Year for 2006 in the scientific research and technology category (awarded by the prestigious monthly 'Parliament Magazine'). |
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In 2007, received from the hands of the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, a statuette of a dove - an award created to mark the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
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