According to unofficial information from “Rzeczpospolita”, on Tuesday, August 13, during a government meeting, Donald Tusk presented a candidate for commissioner from Poland in the new European Commission. It will be Piotr Serafin, who currently holds the position of chairman of the Permanent Representation of Poland to the European Union. Serafin replaced Andrzej Sadoś in this position.
There is currently no information on what portfolio Serafin could count on. He is most often associated with the position of commissioner responsible for the enlargement of the European Union. Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reported in mid-July that Poland would receive the portfolio for energy in the new term of the European Commission. “I am not worried about his preparation, he has very high competences, he is recognizable in the EU environment,” commented a source to “DGP” at the time.
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Serafin was Director of the General Secretariat of the Council of the EU from 2020 to 2023, responsible for transport, telecommunications and energy. Serafin is one of Tusk’s closest associates. Previously, he was head of his cabinet for five years when he was President of the European Council. From 2012 to 2014, Serafin was also Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, responsible for European affairs, including negotiations on the European Union’s financial perspective after 2014.
In 2010-2012 Serafin was Deputy Head of the Commissioner’s Office for Financial Programming and Budget, and before that he worked for 11 years at the Office of the Committee for European Integration. Serafin is a graduate of the Warsaw School of Economics and the University of Warsaw. He was a scholarship holder of the US Department of State and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic.
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