Grażyna Staniszewska

Grazyna Staniszewska ( born November 2, 1949 in Bielsko -Biała) is a Polish politician partia Demokratyczna.

Staniszewska allowed to designate roof completion of their degree in Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University as Polonistin. She was active in Bielsko -Biała as a teacher at the general lyceum, as head of the community center and as a trainer and as a staff member of the Centre for Research and Development REDOR. The early eighties she was at Solidarity Member of the Executive Board and the Regional Council in the region Podbeskidzie, 1981, she was co-founder and director of the Wszechnica Podbeskidzie. However, after martial law was proclaimed, it was first interned and imprisoned thereafter. The Solidarity she remained faithful to continue, where they now belonged to the underground leadership in the region Podbeskidzie and the National Executive Commission. Later, she was a board member of the Unia Demokratyczna and from 1992 to the Unia Wolności. In 1989 she was a member of the round table. From 1989 to 2001 she was a member of the Sejm, after which it belonged until 2004 to the Senate. From 2004 to 2009, she was sitting in the European Parliament.

Staniszewska was also chairman of the Council of the Foundation for Economic Education in Warsaw and coordinator of Interkl @ sa, a nationwide program to prepare youth for the information society. She received the St. Stephen's Medal for the development of cooperation between Poland and Hungary.