Jas Gawronski

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Jas Gawronski (born on 7 February 1936 in Vienna, Austria) is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for North-West with the Forza Italia, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with the Korean Peninsula.

[edit] Education

• 1958: Graduate in Law from the University of Rome La Sapienza

[edit] Career

• 1959-1962: Eastern European correspondent of Il giorno newspaper
• 1962-1966: On the editorial staff of journalistic programmes for RAI (Italian radio and television broadcasting company) from Vietnam, India, the United States and Eastern Europe
• 1979-1981: RAI correspondent in New York (1966-1977), Paris (1977-1979) and Moscow and Warsaw
• 1985-1992: Director of political and scientific programmes on the television channels of Finivest
• Has contributed since 1989 to the daily newspaper La Stampa, of which he was elected member of the Board of Directors
• 1985: Member of Turin City Council (1982-1983) and of Piedmont Regional Council
• 1996-1999: Senator
• 1994-1995: Spokesman for the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
• 1981-1994 and since 1999: Member of the European Parliament

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Italy)

[edit] External links

• European Parliament biography of Jas Gawronski (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• Declaration of financial interests (in Italian; PDF)