Andrzej Halicki (born 26 November 1961) is a Polish politician of the

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(PO) who has been serving as a

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since the

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Political career

Career in national politics

Halicki joined the PO in 2001. On 10 January 2007, Halicki replaced Jacek Wojciechowicz as member of the

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. In the 2007 parliamentary elections, he was elected to parliament for the second time, receiving 3,369 votes in the Warsaw constituency. On 24 June 2009 he became chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, replacing Krzysztof Lisek. In October 2009, he became the spokesman of the PO parliamentary group, a position he held for a year. In May 2010, he was elected chairman of the PO in the Mazovia region. In the 2011 elections he successfully ran for re-election in the Warsaw constituency, receiving 40,002 votes. From September 2014 until November 2015, Halicki briefly served as Minister of Administration and Digitization in the government of

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. During his time in office, he oversaw efforts ley by the country’s telecoms regulator UKE on an auction for mobile broadband frequencies. In addition to his role in parliament, Halicki was as a member of the Polish delegation to the

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from 2012 until 2019. During that time, he served as Vice-President of the Assembly from 2012 to 2014, under the leadership of

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Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present

In parliament, Halicki has been serving on the

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(since 2019) and the Committee on Foreign Affairs (since 2021). In addition to his committee assignments, he is part of the parliament's delegation to the

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Political positions

In 2021, Halicki called on the European Union to follow Britain's example and impose new anti-corruption sanctions on Russians suspected of fraud and graft.Robin Emmott (April 29, 2021)
EU should impose anti-corruption sanctions on Russians, lawmakers say
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References

Living people MEPs for Poland 2019–2024 MEPs for Poland 2024–2029 Civic Platform MEPs Civic Platform politicians 1961 births {{Poland-MEP-stub