Genowefa Grabowska (born on 1 January 1944 in Przystań) is a Polish politician and Member of the European Parliament for the Silesian Voivodship with the Socjaldemokracja Polska, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Constitutional Affairs. January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... A Member of the European Parliament (English abbreviation MEP) is a member of the European Unions directly-elected legislative body, the European Parliament. ... Silesian voivodship since 1999 Silesia or Silesian Voivodship(1) is an administrative region and local government unit in Poland, established in 1999 out of Katowice, Czętochowa and Bielsko-Biała voivodships as a result of Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1998 (effective 1 January 1999). ... Social Democracy of Poland (Socjaldemokracja Polska, SDPL) is a new leftist political party in Poland founded in April 2004 as splinter group from Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej (it should not be confused with a former party Socialdemocracy of the Republic of Poland - SdRP). ... Logo of the Party of European Socialists The Party of European Socialists (PES) Parti Socialiste Européen (PSE) Sozialdemokratische Partei Europas (SPE) Partido socialista Europeo (PSE) is a European political party whose members are the social democratic, socialist and labour parties of the European Union member states as well as Norway. ... The European Parliament is the parliamentary body of the European Union (EU), directly elected by EU citizens once every five years. ...

Grabowska is a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety.

Education

• 1972: Doctor of Law
• 1980: assistant professor

Career

• since 1991: professor
• from 1993-1996: head of the Department of International and European Law at the University of Śląsk, Dean of Faculty
• Author of a number of publications including diplomatic law, environmental law and European law among others
• Senator of the Republic of Poland, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Chairman of the Polish delegation to the Western European Union Parliamentary Assembly
• 1999-2001: Member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland
• 2004: Observer to and then Member of the EP (from 1 May to 19 July
• 2002-2003: Representative of the Polish Parliament at the European Convention
• since 2001: Deputy Arbitrator at the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
• 2002: Polish delegate to the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the session of the UN General Assembly
• Member of the International Law Association in London

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Decorations

• Silver and Gold Cross of Merit, Officer's Cross of the Order of Poland Reborn, National Education Medal

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland) Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on June 13, 2004. ...

External links

• Official website of Genowefa Grabowska: www.grabowska.org.pl (http://www.grabowska.org.pl)
• European Parliament biography of Genowefa Grabowska (http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/whos_mep.data?ilg=EN&iucd=23717)
• Declaration (http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6-dif/23717_08-07-2004.PDF) of financial interests (in Polish; PDF file)