1. Anna Fotyga served postgraduate internships at the Department of Labor of the United States, Cornell University in New York and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
14 Facts About Anna Fotyga
1. 2.
In 1981, and again after 1989, Anna Fotyga acted as Head of the Foreign Office of the Solidarity headquarters in Gdansk, and was a close associate of Lech Kaczynski.
3.
In 2000, Anna Fotyga served as a foreign affairs adviser under then Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek.
4.
Anna Fotyga garnered 25,994 votes in the 2004 European parliamentary elections as a candidate of the Law and Justice party in the Pomeranian Voivodship.
5.
On 9 May 2006 Anna Fotyga was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland by President Lech Kaczynski, replacing Stefan Meller.
6.
On 7 September 2007, Anna Fotyga was dismissed from her post but re-appointed again on the same day; in this way the prime minister and president avoided her being dismissed by a vote of censure prepared by the Civic Platform three months earlier.
7.
Until 20 August 2008, Anna Fotyga was the chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland.
8.
From 2014 until 2019, Anna Fotyga served chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
9.
Anna Fotyga has since been a full member of both the Committee on Foreign Affairs and its Subcommittee on Security and Defence.
10.
In 2015, news media reported that Anna Fotyga was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.
11.
In 2020, Anna Fotyga was appointed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to join a group of experts to support his work in a reflection process to further strengthen NATO's political dimension.
12.
Anna Fotyga has pursued a policy of close alignment with the US.
13.
On 23 November 2016 Anna Fotyga proposed a resolution to counteract propaganda against the EU, which includes advocating censoring Russian media, such as RT and Sputnik.
14.
Anna Fotyga has signed a petition supporting the recognition of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria by the European Parliament.