Dariusz Kajetan Rosati (born 8 August 1946 as Gaetano Dario Rosati) is a Polish professor of economics and a politician who served as a member of the
European Parliament
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from 2004–2019, and subsequently as a deputy of the
Sejm
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The Sejm has been the highest governing body of ...
since 2019.
Biography
Academic
Dariusz Rosati graduated from the Faculty of International Trade at the
thesis
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and in 1978 he received his ''habilitacja'' in economic sciences. He has been a professor of economics since 1990.
He is a supporter of a
united Europe
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Warsaw
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(').
Political
From 1966–1990 he was a member of Polish United Workers Party (PZPR) and in the 1980s he was an economic adviser to
Mieczysław Rakowski
Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski (; 1 December 1926 – 8 November 2008) was a Polish communist politician, historian and journalist who was Prime Minister of Poland from 1988 to 1989. He served as the seventh and final First Secretary of the Pol ...
's government, the last such government of the communist
Polish People's Republic
The Polish People's Republic ( pl, Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, PRL) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1947 to 1989 as the predecessor of the modern Republic of Poland. With a population of approximately 37.9 million ne ...
(PRL). In the 1990s he was a supporter (but not a member) of the post-communist parties, first
Democratic Left Alliance
The Democratic Left Alliance () was a social-democratic political party in Poland. It was formed in 9 July 1991 as an electoral alliance of centre-left parties, and became a single party on 15 April 1999. It was the major coalition party in Pol ...
(SLD), and today Social Democratic Party of Poland (SDPL).
Dariusz Rosati was a co-founder and director of the Global Economy Institute (Instytut Gospodarki Światowej) and the Institute of Economic Situations and Prices (Instytut Koniunktur i Cen). He worked as an expert in various international organisations, including the
Economic Commission for Europe
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE or UNECE) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It was established in order to promote economic cooperation and i ...
of the United Nations in Geneva and adviser to the Chairman of the
European Commission
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in Brussels.
He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinets of
Józef Oleksy
Józef Oleksy (; 22 June 1946 – 9 January 2015) was a Polish left-wing politician, former chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (''Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej'', SLD).
Early life and education
In his youth he lived in Nowy Sącz, and wa ...
and
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (, born 13 September 1950) is a Polish left-wing politician who served as Prime Minister of Poland for a year from 7 February 1996 to 31 October 1997, after being defeated in the Parliamentary elections by the Solidarity ...
(both SLD), and more recently he was a member of the Polish Council of Monetary Policies (').
In the European elections on 13 June 2004 he was elected as a MEP for the SDPL in constituency No. 4 Warsaw and received 76,834 votes (11.94%). In 2014 he was once more elected to the European Parliament and joined the
European People's Party Group
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(EPP Group). He represented the Lubuskie Region as well as Western Pomerania. He was a member of the ECON Committee as well as the PANA Committee, where he also served at the EPP's Coordinator.
In 2009 he founded Alliance for the Future, however the party was very short-lived.
In 2019, after failing to be re-elected as a MEP, he was subsequently elected as a deputy of the Sejm for the
Civic Platform
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It ...
(PO) in constituency No. 19 Warsaw with 25,061 votes. In 2021, he became a full member of the Civic Platform, having co-operated with said party since 2011.
Alleged collaboration with communist secret service
In November 2007, the
Institute of National Remembrance
The Institute of National Remembrance – Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation ( pl, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, abbreviated IPN) is a Polish state resea ...
(IPN) said that Dariusz Rosati was registered as a secret collaborator "candidate" and "protection" by the Ministry of Interior I Department and II Department. Later on he was registered as an operational contact. However, in July 2007 Dariusz Rosati has made a statement in which he denied that cooperation went beyond sporadic contacts. His vetting (lustracja) declaration was approved by the Ombudsman of the Public Interest and prosecutor of the IPN. Thus he was not a secret collaborator at any time during his life.
Personal life
Dariusz Rosati's father, the Italian-born Angelo, was held as a
prisoner of war
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Belligerents hold prisoners of w ...
in Poland during World War II, and after the war briefly settled in
Łódź
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. His mother, Wanda, worked as a forced labourer in Nazi Germany. His parents divorced shortly after his birth, and his father left for France. When Rosati was ten years old, his mother renounced his Italian citizenship on his behalf, and also Polonised and rearranged his name.Michał Krzymowski, ''Rodzina Rosatich'', „
Wprost
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” nr 25 z 20 czerwca 2011, s. 24–25.
Rosati met his future wife Teresa (born 1946) while studying at university, and married in 1971. They have two children, a son (Marcin) and a daughter ( Weronika).
See also
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2004 European Parliament election in 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 Le ...