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{{Short description|Polish politician (born 1967)}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2021}}
[[File:Jacek Protasiewicz 2023.jpg|thumb|Jacek Protasiewicz (2023)]]
'''Jacek Protasiewicz''' (born 5 June 1967 in [[Brzeg]]) is a [[Politics of Poland|Polish]] [[politician]]. Graduated from [[Wroclaw University]] where in the 80s of 20th century was a leader of anti communist student organization (NZS). In 1995 was an international fellow at the [[Kettering Foundation]] based in [[Dayton]], [[Ohio]]. He was a local leader of a liberal party (KL-D) in 1994 and then the Union of Freedom - the party led by a first non-communist Prime Minister of Poland. In 2001 he was a cofounder and a local leader of [[Civic Platform]] - a party led by [[Donald Tusk]] - later [[Prime Minister of Poland]] and Head of the [[European Council]]. First time elected to a [[Deliberative assembly|regional assembly]] in 1998 and then to the [[Polish Parliament]] in 2001. In 2004 he was elected to the [[European Parliament]] where he served as Chair of Delegation for Belarus (2007-2012) and as the Vice-President 2012-2014 in charge for relations with parliaments of [[Eastern Partnership]] countries as well as with [[NATO Parliamentary Assembly]]. He was the Head of the presidential election campaign of [[Donald Tusk]] in 2005 and the Civic Platform election campaign in 2011. In 2015 elected again to [[Polish Parliament]] and re-elected in 2019. Nowadays he serves as a Deputy Head of the Polish Coalition caucus in [[Polish Parliament]] and member of Committee for European Union Affairs and Committee for [[Public Finance]].

==Education==
* 1994: Graduate of the [[University of Wrocław]]

==Career==
* 1990-1992: Press spokesman for the Voivodship of Wrocław
* 1992-1994: Member of the National Council and Chairman of the Wrocław branch of the Liberal-Democratic Congress (KLD)
* 1994-1995: assistant to the Chairman of the Wrocław [[City Council]]
* 1994-2000: Member of the National Council of the Freedom Union (UW)
* 1997-2000: Chairman of the Wrocław region of the UW
* 1998-2001: Chairman of the Committee on Tourism, Sport and Recreation (1998-2001) and the UW Union of Councillors in the Regional Council of the Voivodship of Lower Silesia
* 1999-2001: director of the Bureau for the Promotion of the City and Cooperation with Other Countries, Office of the City of Wrocław (1996-2001) and press spokesman for the Wrocław City Council
* 2000-2001: Member and Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Polish Tourist Organisation
* 2000-2002: Vice-Chairman of the Lower Silesian Tourist Organisation
* 2001-2004: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic
* 2001: Member of the National Council of the Citizens' Platform (PO)
* 2003-2004: [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]] - Observer in the EP (EPP-ED and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
* 2003: Chairman of the PO in [[Wrocław]]

{{see also|European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{official website}}
* {{MEP}}
* {{Declaration of financial interests of the 6th term|23782_12-07-2004.PDF|pl}}

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[[Category:1967 births]]
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[[Category:MEPs for Poland 2004]]
[[Category:Civic Platform MEPs]]
[[Category:MEPs for Poland 2004–2009]]
[[Category:MEPs for Poland 2009–2014]]
[[Category:Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023]]

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