Lewandowski appointed to chair European Parliament Committee on Budgets

Janusz Lewandowski from the Civic Platform (PO), a former Minister of Privatization, has been chosen as the head of the European Parliament's Committee on Budgets. "This may well be the most demanding position in this Parliament," Lewandowski admitted modestly. Lewandowski began his political career as a Solidarity activist in Gdańsk. In the early 1990s he was a member of the Liberal Democratic Congress (KLD) and a minister in the cabinets of Jan Krzysztof Bielecki and Hanna Suchocka. Later he was a member of the Freedom Union (UW) and finally the Civic Platform. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A2; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) T.J.