Janusz Antoni Lewandowski ( polnische Aussprache: [ˈjanuʂ lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi] ; * 13. Juni 1951) ist ein polnischer Politiker und Ökonom der Gdańsker Liberalen und ehemaliges Mitglied des Europäischen Parlaments (gewählt am 13. Juni 2004), wo er Vorsitzender des Haushaltsausschusses war . Am 27. November 2009 wurde er zum Kommissar für Haushalt und Finanzprogrammplanung der Europäischen Kommission ernannt und gehört der Europäischen Volkspartei (EVP) an. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Er wurde für eine achte Legislaturperiode (2014–2019) als Mitglied der EVP-Fraktion in das Europäische Parlament wiedergewählt.

Biographie

Paweł Rogaliński und Janusz Lewandowski (2012)

Lewandowski wurde in Lublin geboren . [ 3 ] Er schloss sein Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Danzig ab , promovierte und war dort bis 1984 als Dozent tätig. Später arbeitete er für die Polnische Ozeanlinie (Polskie Linie Oceaniczne). Er war außerdem Dozent an der Harvard University und Gründer des Forschungsinstituts für Marktwirtschaft in Danzig (Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową w Gdańsku).

Er ist Autor eines Buches über berühmte Liberale und schreibt außerdem Kurzartikel für verschiedene Zeitungen und Zeitschriften, darunter Rzeczpospolita , Gazeta Wyborcza , Parkiet , Polityka , Wprost und Newsweek .

Politische Karriere

From 1980 to 1989 he was an economics adviser to the Solidarity anti-communist movement, and in 1988 he was one of the founders of the Liberal Democratic Congress. He was the Minister of Privatization in the cabinets of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki (1990–1991) and Hanna Suchocka (1992–1993). His major successes were the foundation of the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the mass privatization programme (Program Powszechnej Prywatyzacji).

He lost his parliamentary seat in the 1993 elections and worked as an international expert from 1994 to 1997. After the merger of KLD and Democratic Union in 1994 he became a member of Freedom Union (UW), and in 1997 member of Sejm representing UW. Together with Donald Tusk and other liberals he seceded from UW to form Civic Platform, and was elected an MP again in 2001. Since 2003 he was an observer in the European Parliament.

In the 2004 European Parliament election he was a candidate of Civic Platform in constituency #1 Pomeranian 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 the 2014 European Parliament election from 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2014 after he took up his seat.[4][5]

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.

Political positions

Lewandowski has expressed skepticism about the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change, putting him at odds with many of his colleagues in the Barroso Commission.[6] MEPs have asked "which steps" president Barroso will take over the comments.[7] 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.[8]

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