Filip Adwent

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Filip Adwent (31 August 1955, Strasbourg - 26 June 2005) was a Polish right wing Catholic politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Pomeranian Voivodship. He ran on a ticket of the extreme right wing party Liga Polskich Rodzin, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.

Adwent was a substitute for the Committee on Transport and Tourism and a vice-chair of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

He died eight days after he and his family were involved in a multiple car accident which occurred on 18 June 2005 near Warsaw. His father and daughter died instantly, along with two other people.

[edit] Education

• 2004: Physician specialising in anaesthesiology and intensive therapy (1983), post-graduate studies at the Warsaw Agricultural University in Environmental Protection

[edit] Career

• 2001-2002: Member of the Polish Alliance
• Organiser of aid to Polish hospitals for 15 years, honoured by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare for services to the protection of health

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

[edit] External links

• Official website of Filip Adwent: www.filipadwent.pl
• European Parliament biography of Filip Adwent (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• Declaration of financial interests (in Polish; PDF)