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I regret that the full transfer of power to Alassane Ouattara could only be achieved at the price of human lives and of a grave humanitarian crisis
U.N. to probe Ivorian atrocities Apr 12, 2011
Even though activists like Guillermo Farinas are persecuted and are imprisoned, their voice cannot be silenced. The role of the European Parliament is to amplify that voice
European Parliament honors Cuban dissenter Dec 15, 2010
I call on the Russian authorities to release her immediately
Buzek denounces Alexeyeva's arrest Jan 02, 2010
When Lyudmila Alexeyeva on Dec. 16 was in the European Parliament during the press conference following the awarding of the Sakharov Prize, the media asked her if she was not afraid to return to Russia after having received the prize from the European Parliament
Buzek denounces Alexeyeva's arrest Jan 02, 2010
It's not good news not to have a budget for 2011, but we will follow procedures
EU budget talks break down Nov 16, 2010
Jerzy Karol Buzek ( listen) (born 3 July 1940) is a Polish engineer, academic lecturer and politician. He was Member of Sejm from 1997 to 2001. He served as the 9th post-Cold War Prime Minister of Poland from 1997 to 2001 and has been a member of the European Parliament since 13 June 2004. On 14 July 2009, he was elected President of the European Parliament, succeeding Hans-Gert Pöttering.
Jerzy Karol Buzek was born to a Lutheran family on 3 July 1940 in what is now Smilovice in the Czech Republic. He was born into the prominent Buzek family, which participated in Polish politics in the Second Polish Republic during the interbellum. The family was part of the Polish community in Zaolzie. Buzek's father was an engineer. After the Second World War, his family moved to Chorzów. He is a Protestant.
In 1963 Jerzy Buzek graduated from the Mechanics-and-Energy Division of the Silesian University of Technology, specialising in chemical engineering. He became a scientist in the Chemical Engineering Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Since 1997 he has been a professor of technical science. He is also an honorary doctor of the universities in Seoul and Dortmund.