Piotr Wawrzyk will be Secretary of State tasked with issues related to Poland’s membership of the European Union, legal and treaty affairs, the United Nations, consular and parliamentary affairs. Paweł Jabłoński will be Undersecretary of State responsible for economic and development cooperation and European Union law.

Putting the secretary and undersecretary of state at the MFA in charge of European affairs is a temporary solution that will be in place until the MFA’s European affairs departments are fully transferred to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the relevant statutory changes are adopted.

Piotr Wawrzyk was born in 1967. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of European Studies at Warsaw University’s Faculty of Journalism and Political Science. He graduated from the Institute of Political Science and Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. In 1994-1997 he worked at the Bureau of Sejm Committees of the Sejm Chancellery and then in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, where he participated in Poland-EU accession negotiations. From 2000 to 2002 he cooperated with the Department of European Legislation at the Office of the Committee for European Integration to align the Polish law with the EU acquis. From February 2018 to October 2019 he was Undersecretary of State at the MFA in charge of legal and treaty affairs. He won the MP mandate of the ninth term in the parliamentary elections in October 2019.

Paweł Jabłoński was born in 1986. He graduated from Warsaw University’s Faculty of Law and Administration, and Spanish and European Law School at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Warsaw. In the years 2008 – 2015 he was employed in legal offices. He has been a lawyer and a member of the Warsaw Bar Association since 2015. Between 2016 - 2018 he was a vice disciplinary ombudsman of the Association. In 2018 he was appointed advisor to the Prime Minister, then he was deputy director of International Project Coordination Department at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister. Since February 2019 he has been a board member at the Central Europe Institute.

 

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