Paweł Kowal

Paweł Robert Kowal ( born July 22, 1975 in Rzeszów) is a Polish politician and since the European election 2009 Member of the European Parliament. 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the Sejm in the V. and VI. Legislature. In addition, he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Life

Kowal is a graduate of Fine I. General Lyceum Stanisław Konarski in Rzeszów. In 1999 he finished his studies in History at the University of Warsaw. From 1996 to 1998 he studied under the direction of Prof. Krystyna Kersten Collegium Invisibile in Warsaw. He made study trips to Yakutia, Buryatia and Khakassia. After 1999 he was an assistant at the Institute for Political Studies of the Polska Akademia Nauk ( Polish Academy of Sciences).

He was in the Youth Council of Rzeszow active, including as Chairman. From 1996 to 1998 he managed the Jagiellonian Club and was also at the center Mirosław Dzielski in Krakow. From 1997 to 2005 he was a staff member of the Centre for Political Thought, in which he conducted the program " The ratio of the Polish State to Poland in the east ." He belongs to the Polish Community Association and since 2005 he is an associate member of the World Federation of the soldiers of the Home Army (Polish Home Army - AK). He cooperates with the Eastern College January Nowak - Jeziorański in Wrocław ( Breslau), since 2007 as a member of the College.

From 1998 to 2000 Kowal worked in the Prime Minister's Office, while he conducted the department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2000 to 2001 he was Director of the Department for International Cooperation and European Integration at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. From 2001 to 2003 he worked as an expert on Eastern policy at the Center for International Relations. In the years 2003 to 2005 he was director of the Mazovia Centre for Culture and the Arts. After 2003, he was an expert in the Warsaw Uprising Museum and participated in the creation of the concept of this museum. In 2005, he headed the press office of the Mayor of Warsaw, Lech Kaczyński.

In the years from 2002 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Council of the Warsaw district of Ochota. In the 2005 parliamentary elections, he was for the constituency Chrzanów on the list of Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS, German: Law and Justice ) elected to the Sejm. He was until 2006 Chairman of the Commission for Culture and the Deputy Chairman of the PiS Group. From 20 July 2006 to 22 November 2007 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the government of Jarosław Kaczyński. The Sejmwahlen 2007, he was confirmed for the PiS with 26 184 votes as an MP. He was vice chairman of PiS Group and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

In the European elections in Poland in 2009, he was elected to the European Parliament, where he joined as the other PiS deputies of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR). He leads the delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committee EU-Ukraine and is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and in the Subcommittee on Security and Defence.

Together with three other MEPs Kowal came on 16 November 2010 from the PiS and was on the founding of the new party Polska jest Najważniejsza ( PJN, German: Poland is the most important ) part. However, he remained a member of the ECR Group.