Janusz Lewandowski | |
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.jpg) Lewandowski in 2024 | |
| European Commissioner for Financial Programming and the Budget | |
| In office 9 February 2010 – 1 July 2014 | |
| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Algirdas Šemeta |
| Succeeded by | Andris Piebalgs(Acting) |
| Member of the European Parliament forPoland | |
| Assumed office 1 July 2014 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Janusz Antoni Lewandowski (1951-06-13)13 June 1951 (age 74) |
| Political party | Solidarity(1980–1988) Liberal Democratic Congress(1988–1994) Freedom Union(1994–2001) Civic Platform(2001–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Gdańsk |
Janusz Antoni Lewandowski (Polish pronunciation:[ˈjanuʂlɛvanˈdɔfskʲi]; born 13 June 1951) is aPolish politician and economist belonging to the Gdańsk liberals group, and a former member of theEuropean Parliament (elected on 13 June 2004), Chairman of theCommittee on Budgets. On 27 November 2009 he obtained the post ofBudget and Financial Programming Commissioner of theEuropean Commission and is affiliated to theEuropean People's Party (EPP).[1][2] He was re-elected for the 8th term (2014–2019) of the European Parliament, as a member of the EPP group.
Lewandowski was born inLublin. He graduated in economics fromUniversity of Gdańsk, received a doctorate and was a lecturer there until 1984. Later he worked forPolish Oceanic Lines (Polskie Linie Oceaniczne). He was also a lecturer atHarvard University and the founder of the Research Institute for Market Economy inGdańsk (Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową w Gdańsku).
He is an author of a book on famous liberals and he also writes short articles for several newspapers and magazines, includingRzeczpospolita,Gazeta Wyborcza,Parkiet,Polityka,Wprost andNewsweek.
From 1980 to 1989 he was an economics adviser to theSolidarity anti-communist movement, and in 1988 he was one of the founders of theLiberal Democratic Congress. He was the Minister of Privatization in the cabinets ofJan Krzysztof Bielecki (1990–1991) andHanna Suchocka (1992–1993). His major successes were the foundation of theWarsaw Stock Exchange and the mass privatization programme (Program Powszechnej Prywatyzacji).
He lost his parliamentary seat in the1993 elections and worked as an international expert from 1994 to 1997. After the merger of KLD andDemocratic Union in 1994 he became a member ofFreedom Union (UW), and in 1997 member ofSejm representing UW. Together withDonald Tusk and other liberals he seceded from UW to formCivic Platform, and was elected an MP again in 2001. Since 2003 he was an observer in theEuropean Parliament.
In the2004 European Parliament election he was a candidate ofCivic Platform in constituency #1Pomeranian Voivodship and received 79,879 votes (=20.17%, the best result in the region). On 23 July 2004 he was elected chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Budgets.
Andris Piebalgs was twice Acting Commissioner in his stead, from 19 April 2014 – 25 May 2014 while he was on electoral campaign leave for the2014 European Parliament election from 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2014 after he took up his seat.[3][4]
Lewandowski was re-elected for the 8th term (2014–2019) of the European Parliament, as a member of the EPP group.
He was re-elected for the 9th term (2019–2024) of the European Parliament and was chosen as the 1st Vice-Chair of the EP Committee on Budgets.
Lewandowski has expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus onanthropogenic climate change, putting him at odds with many of his colleagues in the Barroso Commission.[5] MEPs have asked "which steps" president Barroso will take over the comments.[6] As one of the key experts on the European Union long term budget, known as "Multiannual Financial Framework", or MFF, MEP Lewandowski was one of the European Parliament "rapporteurs", recommending the agreement on the MFF 2021–2027.[7]
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