1. Jacek Emil Saryusz-Wolski was born on 19 September 1948 and is a Polish diplomat and PiS politician.
18 Facts About Jacek Saryusz-Wolski
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski has been a Member of the European Parliament since June 2004.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski served as vice president of the European Parliament.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski comes from a family of the Jelita coat of arms.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski completed postgraduate studies at the Centre Europeen Universitaire in Nancy, France.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski held this position till 1996, despite the frequent government changes.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski returned to the government in 2000, when the prime minister Jerzy Buzek has nominated him a secretary in the European Integration Committee.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski played an important role in the negotiations in Nice in 2000.
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Since first joining the European Parliament, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski has been a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, which he chaired between 2007 and 2009.
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In March 2006, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was elected vice president of the European People's Party for a three-year term.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski served as vice-president and member of the national board of Civic Platform until October 2010 and as leader of the Polish delegation of centre-right MEPs until 2012.
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In 2010, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski joined the Friends of the EEAS, a unofficial and independent pressure group formed because of concerns that the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton was not paying sufficient attention to the Parliament and was sharing too little information on the formation of the European External Action Service.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was stripped of his position of vice-president within the EPP.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski stopped being a member of the EPP group in the Parliament.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski is widely regarded as having played a big role in the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine and in support for the opposition in Belarus.
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In 2015, news media reported that Jacek Saryusz-Wolski was included in a Russian blacklist of prominent people from the European Union who are not allowed to enter the country.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski has been awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, the French Legion of Honour, the Ukrainian Order of Merit of 1st Class, the Georgian St George's Order of Victory.
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Jacek Saryusz-Wolski is married to his wife, Grazyna, a professor in English literature at Lodz University.