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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
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from 2004–2009 and 2014-2019, and a deputy of the
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from 2011-2014 and 2019-2023.


Biography


Academic

Dariusz Rosati graduated from the Faculty of International Trade at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 1969 and immediately afterwards started working there as an assistant. In 1973 he defended his
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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, the author of numerous publications on
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and the rector of Lazarski School of Commerce and Law in
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(').


Political

From 1966–1990 he was a member of
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(PZPR) and in the 1980s he was an economic adviser to
Mieczysław Rakowski Mieczysław Franciszek Rakowski ( Polish: ; 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 o ...
's government, the last such government of the communist
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(PRL). In the 1990s he was a supporter (but not a member) of the post-communist parties, first
Democratic Left Alliance Democratic Left Alliance may refer to: * Democratic Left Alliance (Poland) The Democratic Left Alliance () was a social democracy, social-democratic list of political parties in Poland, political party in Poland. It was formed on 9 July 1991 as ...
(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
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of the United Nations in Geneva and adviser to the Chairman of the
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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 who served as Prime Minister of Poland from 7 March 1995 to 7 February 1996, when he resigned due to espionage allegations. He was chairman of the Democratic Le ...
and
Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz (, born 13 September 1950 in Warsaw) is a Polish 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
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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
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(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
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(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 A prisoner of war (POW) is a person held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. Belligerents hold prisoners of war for a ...
in Poland during World War II, and after the war briefly settled in
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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'', „
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See also

*
2004 European Parliament election in Poland Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on 13 June 2004 as part of the wider 2004 European Parliament election. They were the first European Parliament elections held in Poland after the country's accession to the European U ...


References


External links

* http://www.rosati.pl * http://www.radom.pl/uk/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Rosati, Dariusz 1946 births Living people People from Radom Ministers of foreign affairs of Poland Polish economists Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989) Social Democracy of Poland MEPs MEPs for Poland 2004–2009 Polish people of Italian descent MEPs for Poland 2014–2019 Members of the Polish Sejm 2011–2015 Members of the Polish Sejm 2019–2023