Profile of the leaders of Parliament's political groups

Michał Kamiński was born in March 1972 in Warsaw. He became politically active at the age of 15 in national conservative and Catholic opposition movements.

Mr Kaminski was first elected to the European Parliament for the Law and Justice party in 2004 where he became a member of the Internal Market committee and vice chair of the group Union for a Europe of Nations.

In July 2007 he left the EP to work as Secretary of State in the Chancellery of Polish President Lech Kaczyński for whom Kamiński, a former journalist, acted as the spokesperson.

With the June 2009 elections he returned to the European Parliament where he was a key player in the forming of the new ECR group.

He has been described by a member of his group as a “Euro-sceptic, free-market Atlanticist” and admirer of Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. He is father of two girls.