Lidia Joanna Geringer de Oedenberg (born on 12 September 1957 in Wrocław, Poland

Poland

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) is a Polish

Politics of Poland

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 politician

Politician

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 and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the DS & OP
with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union

Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union

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, part of the Socialist Group

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. Her family name is "Ulatowska", which she has changed after marriage with her husband.

Lidia Geringer de Oedenberg's current activities in the European Parliament include her position as a Quaestor to the European Parliament, as well as her membership in the Committee on Legal Affairs, the Committee on Petitions, and the Delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia. She is also a substitute for the Committee on Budgets

Committee on Budgets

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, the Delegation to the EU-Croatia Joint Parliamentary Committee, the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.

Education

• 1981: Master of Economics, Economics Academy, Wrocław, Department of Administration and Information Sciences, Economic Cybernetics and Statistics studies
• 1997: Marketing Studies in Culture
  Culture
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   at the World Economy Institute, Warsaw School of Economics
• 1999: French Institute of Administration in Warsaw
  Warsaw
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• 2001: Advanced diploma of proficiency
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   in the French language - DALF

Career

• 1995-1997: Editorial staff at Polish Television S.A (1989-2001), journalist on the weekly 'Wiadomości Kulturalne'
• since 1996: General director of the International Festival of Culture
  Culture
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   'Wratislavia Cantans'
• 2000-2003: Member of the European Festivals Association
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   (EFA) board
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   in Geneva
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   (1997-2000), Chairman of the EFA Marketing Committee
• 2000-2002: Commissioner for Music of the Europalia
  Europalia
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   Polska festival
• since 2001: General director of the Wrocław Philharmonic
• Programme director for Polish Television S.A
• 2001: Wrocław branch
• Vice-Chairman of the Polish Television S.A
• since 2004: Programme Council in Wrocław
• since 2004: Member of the European Parliament; Vice-Chairwoman of the Committee on Legal Affairs (2006-2009); member of the Committees on Rural Development, Budgets, Women's Rights and Gender Equality, and Petitions (2004-2009).
• somce 2006: Member of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) party
• since 2008: Member of the National Council of the SLD

Awards and Distinctions

• Primus Inter Pares award, Warsaw (1978-1979).
• Special economics award from the Scientific Secretary of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, 1980).
• Prize and medal awarded by the Provincial Governor in Wrocław (1996, 1997).
• Wrocław Music Prize 2000/2001 and 2002/2003 ('Wratislavia Cantans').
• 2002 Lower Silesia Diamond Prize (for Wrocław Philharmonic).
• Ministry of Culture awards: Meritorious Cultural Worker Decoration in 2004 and Gloria Artis medal in 2005.
• Polish Association for the Blind Gold Badge of Honour 2008.
• Polish Pensioners' Association Gold Badge of Honour 2008.
• LWP Cross awarded by the Association of Soldiers of the People's Army of Poland (LWP) in 2008.
• Nominated for the Polityka Passport award for culture in 1998.
• Shortlisted for the MEP Awards 2008 in the Campaigner of the Year category.
• Best Polish MEP during the sixth parliamentary term, according to the 2009 rankings compiled by the Kościuszko Institute and the Institute for Public Affairs and the Institute of Political Science at Wrocław University.

See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)

Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on 13 June 2004. 20.87% of eligible citizens voted; of these, 97.33% of the votes cast were valid. The elections resulted in a heavy defeat for the governing Alliance of the Democratic Left and Labor Union parties, although the very low...

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