Grażyna Staniszewska

Grażyna Ewa Staniszewska (born 2 November 1949 in Biała Krakowska) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodeship with the Freedom Union, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Regional Development.

Staniszewska is a substitute for the Committee on Culture and Education, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and a substitute for the Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee.

Education

1972: Polish scholar, graduate of Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University

Career

1982-1983: Teacher at the Bielsko-Biała grammar-school (1972-1974), head of the Bielsko-Biała Culture Club (1974-1980) and instructor
since 1984: Researcher at the REDOR Research and Development Centre in Bielsko-Biała
1980-1981: Member of the administration and Podbeskidzie regional council of the independent, self-governing trade union NSZZ Solidarność
1981: Founder and head of the Podbeskidzia Open Education Agency
1983-1989: Interned under martial law (1981-1982) then arrested (1983), member of the underground authorities of NSZZ Solidarność
1988-1990: Member of the underground and subsequently legal National Executive Committee of NSZZ Solidarność
since 1992: Member of the national authorities of the Democratic Union, then the Freedom Union
1989: Participant at the Round Table Conference
1989-2001: Member of Parliament of the Polish Republic
1997-2001: Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Education, Science and Youth
2001-2004: Senator of the Republic of Poland
since 1996: Chairman of the Council of the Foundation for Economic Education in Warsaw
1998-: all-Poland coordinator of the programme for the preparation of youth for the information society 'Interkl@sa'

Decorations

Order of St. Stephen for the development of Polish-Hungarian cooperation

Alleged collaboration with communist secret service

In 1992 she was accused by Antoni Macierewicz, then the Polish Minister of Internal Affairs of having collaborated with the communist-era secret services as a secret agent. She repeatedly denied the accusations and her name was eventually cleared by the Court of Appeal in Warsaw on 7 March 2000.^[1]