Grażyna Staniszewska

Grażyna Ewa Staniszewska (born 2 November 1949) 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 Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2011)

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.