Jas Gawronski

Jas Gawronski
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office 9 May 1996 – 18 December 1999
Member of the European Parliament
In office 10 June 1979 – 12 June 1994
In office 13 June 1999 – 7 June 2009
Personal details
Born	(1936-02-07) 7 February 1936 Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Italian
Political party	PRI (until 1994) FI (1994–2009)
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome
Occupation	Journalist, politician

Jas Gawronski (born 7 February 1936) is an Italian journalist and politician. He was a member of the European Parliament for North-West with Forza Italia, member of the Bureau of the European People's Party, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Biography

Born into the Polish noble family, he is the grandson of Stanisław Gawroński, Rawicz coat of arms (1860-1942) and his wife, Princess Helena Lubomirska (1870-1950). Gawronski, who speaks Polish fluently, was born in Vienna, Austria, the son of a Polish ambassador, Jan Gawroński, and the Italian writer Luciana Frassati. He was correspondent for RAI (Italian State television) from New York, Paris, Moscow and Warsaw, and later hosted some political shows for Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset network. He collaborated with the newspapers Il Giorno and La Stampa. From 1981 to 1994 he was a member of the European Parliament for the Italian Republican Party. He later switched to Berlusconi's Forza Italia, for which he was elected to the Italian Senate in 1996–99.

Gawronski is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade, a member of the Delegation for Relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and a substitute for the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula.

External links

• Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): XIII legislature
• Personal profile of Jas Gawronski in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Italian)