Danuta Hübner

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Education

Hübner received her MSc in Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics (Central School of Planning and Statistics) in 1971, her PhD in economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics 1974 Visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at the University of Sussex in 1974, and her post-doctoral degree in international trade relations, SGH Warsaw School of Economics in 1980.Template:Cn

Hübner was a 1988–1990 Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and received an honorary Degree in Laws of Sussex University in 2005.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Academics

In the 1970s Hübner was a visiting scholar at Universidad Autonoma in Madrid. Since 1971 she has been a professor at the Warsaw School of Economics.

For 1981–1987 she was Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Developing Countries, Warsaw School of Economics. She has been a full Professor, Warsaw School of Economics, since 1992, currently on leave. For 1991–1994 she was Deputy Director, Institute for Development and Strategic Studies, Warsaw.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Publishing

For 1991–1997 Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ekonomista, a Polish bi-monthly, and for 1994–1997 she was Editor-in-Chief of Gospodarka Narodowa, a Polish economics monthly.<ref name=":0" />

Political career

Early beginnings

  • 1997–1998 Minister Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland Aleksander Kwaśniewski
  • 1996–1997 Government Plenipotentiary for establishing the Committee for European Integration (KIE), Secretary of KIE with the rank of Secretary of State and Head of the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE)
  • 1995–1996 Chief Negotiator for accession to OECD
  • 1994–1996 Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Industry and Trade
  • 1994–1995 Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Co-author of the Government Programme Strategy for Poland
  • 1992–1996 Chairperson of the Council for Social Planning, Central Office for Planning
  • In the years 1970–1987 she was a member of communist Polish United Workers' Party PZPR

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 1998–2001

Return to government

From 2001 until 2003, Hübner was the Head of Office of the Committee for European Integration and Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2003 until 2004, Hübner served as Minister for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Leszek Miller. In this capacity, she was the representative of the Government of Poland to the Convention on the Future of Europe.

Member of the European Commission, 2004–2009

From 1 May 2004, Hübner was a Member of the European Commission. At the time of her nomination by Prime Minister of Poland Leszek Miller, her main competitor was fellow Convention member and former Prime Minister Józef Oleksy.<ref>Hübner leads race to be country's first commissioner European Voice, 10 September 2003.</ref>

In November 2004, Hübner was appointed Commissioner for Regional Policy in the European Commission led by President José Manuel Barroso. In this capacity, she represented the Commission at the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005.

Between 2006 and 2007, Hübner served as member of the Amato Group, a group of high-level European politicians unofficially working on rewriting the Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe into what became known as the Treaty of Lisbon following its rejection by French and Dutch voters.

Member of the European Parliament, 2009–present

Since the 2009 European elections, Hübner has been a Member of the European Parliament for Poland, representing the Warsaw Constituency (from Civic Platform). In 2011, she was awarded the Emperor-Maximilian-Prize.

From 2009 until 2014, Hübner served as chairwoman of the Committee on Regional Development. Since 2014, she has been chairing the Committee on Constitutional Affairs. She also serves on the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and on the five-member Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Members, the parliament’s body responsible for assessing alleged breaches of its code of conduct and advising the President of the European Parliament on possible action to be taken,<ref>Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Members European Parliament.</ref>

In addition to her committee assignments, Hübner has been a member of the Parliament's delegation for relations with the United States since 2009. On 15 September 2010 she joined the Spinelli Group in the European Parliament, which was founded to reinvigorate the strive for federalisation of the EU; other prominent supporters included Jacques Delors, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Guy Verhofstadt, Andrew Duff, Elmar Brok. She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Sports.<ref>Members of the European Parliament on Sports European Parliament.</ref> From 2014 until 2019, she was a member of the European Parliament's Advisory Committee on the Conduct of Members.<ref>Annual Report 2015 European Parliament.</ref><ref>Annual Report 2019 European Parliament.</ref>

In 2015, Hübner was one of the Parliament's two rapporteurs (alongside Jo Leinen) on a set of proposed changes to EU electoral law that sought to regularize a variety of different electoral systems across the EU.<ref>Maïa de La Baume (12 November 2015), Parliament wants Europe-wide election of Commission president Politico Europe.</ref> Since 2017, she has been serving on the Parliament's so-called Brexit Steering Group, which works under the aegis of the Conference of Presidents and to coordinates Parliament's deliberations, considerations and resolutions on the UK's withdrawal from the EU.<ref>Brexit Steering Group Template:Webarchive European Parliament.</ref>

Other activities

Political positions

In November 2017, Hübner joined a parliamentary majority by voting in favor of a resolution invoking Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, thereby potentially stripping Poland of voting rights in the EU for violating the common values of the bloc, including the rule of law.<ref name="nytimes.com">Joanna Berendt (27 November 2017), Protest Targeting Opposition Lawmakers Stirs Outrage in Poland The New York Times.</ref> Shortly after, her political opponents had pictures of Hübner and five other Polish politicians strung from a makeshift gallows in a public square in Katowice.<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

Speaking in July 2017 with respect to Brexit negotiations, Hübner has said the process cannot be about "cherry-picking".<ref name="ReferenceA">Core Politics (broadcast on YouTube interview); UK doesn't understand consequences published on 12 July 2017</ref> She has said that it is "important to understand what the UK wants". She has said that they have heard the UK say "no customs union, no single market". She has said that she hopes the negotiation will be a "learning process" for the UK and that these stances will change.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> Hübner said she was "totally disappointed" with the Brexit decision and said that she felt there was a "lack of understanding of the consequences" of Brexit.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

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