Marek Siwiec

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Marek Maciej Siwiec
Vice President of the European Parliament 13th Vice President in order of precedence
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 1, 2007
President	Hans-Gert Pöttering
4th Chief of the Polish National Security Office
In office February 19, 1997 – June 17, 2004
President	Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Preceded by	Jerzy Milewski
Succeeded by	Tadeusz Bałachowicz
Born	February 13, 1955 (1955-02-13) (age 53) Piekary Śląskie, Poland
Political party	Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union Party of European Socialists (as MEP)

Marek Maciej Siwiec (born on 13 March 1955 in Piekary Slaskie) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej - Unia Pracy, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Currently, he is serving as one of the Vice Presidents of the European Parliament. Previously he was notable as Chief of the Polish National Security Office under President Aleksander Kwaśniewski.

Siwiec is also chairs the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee.

Contents 1 Controversies 2 Education 3 Career 4 Decorations 5 Collaboration with communist secret service 6 External links

[edit] Controversies

During presidency campaign in 2000 a film was published revealing Marek Siwiec, that time chief of National Security Bureau, parodying a gesture of the pope John Paul II (making a cross sign in the air on arrival). President Kwaśniewski encouraged Siwiec to make a parody of pope's another gesture (kissing the soil).

[edit] Education

• 1980: Master of Engineering, University of Mining and Metallurgy in Kraków (AGH)
• 1989: Post-graduate study in journalism at the Academy of Social Sciences - Centre for Education of the Foreign Service

[edit] Career

• 1981-1982: Assistant at the Electronics Institute of AGH (1980-1982), traineeship with the GAS & Fuel Corporation of Victoria, Australia
• 1990-1991: Editor-in-chief of the bi-monthly 'Student' (1985-1987), weekly 'ITD' (1987-1990) and the daily 'Trybuna'
• 1991-1997: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic
• 1993: Spokesman for the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) Parliamentary Party
• 1993-1996: Member of the National Council for Radio and Television
• 1993-1996: Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• 1996-2004: Secretary of State at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland
• Chief of the National Security Office
• 1997-2004: Vice-Chairman of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Poland and Ukraine
• Secretary of the National Security Council (2000-2004) head of the Polish Association of Friends of the Peres Centre for Peace
• Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation to Counter Terrorism and Biological Threats
• Member of the National Administration of the SLD
• Head of the national delegation to the PSE in the EP
• Honours

[edit] Decorations

• Order of Gedymin (1997, LT), Cavaliere di Gran Croce (1997, I), Ordem do Merito (1997, P), Ordre de Leopold (1999, B)
• National Order of Merit (2000, F)
• Ubique Patriae Memor (2002, BR)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit (2003, LT)
• Virtutea Militară (2003, RO)
• Royal Victorian Order (2004, GB)
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th and 3rd Class (1997, 2004, UA)

[edit] Collaboration with communist secret service

Since March 21, 1986 till January 19, 1990 he was a secret collaborator code name Jerzy of communist Służba Bezpieczeństwa^[1]

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

[edit] External links

• Official website of Marek Maciej Siwiec: www.mareksiwiec.pl
• European Parliament biography of Marek Maciej Siwiec (incl. Speeches, Questions and Motions)
• DeclarationPDF of financial interests (Polish)

1. ^ [1] Institute of National Remembrance catalogue