* 1946 – Leszek Miller, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland

Leszek Miller with Marek Belka, 2004

Leszek Cezary Miller ( born 3 July 1946 in Żyrardów ) is a Polish central-left-wing politician, and current leader of the Democratic Left Alliance.

Leszek Miller started his political career as an activist of the Socialist Youth Union, where he held the position of Chairman of the Plant Board, soon becoming a member of the Town Committee.

In 1973-1974, Leszek Miller was the Secretary of the PZPR Plant Committee.

After graduation, Leszek Miller worked at the PZPR Central Committee, supervising the Group, and later on the Department of Youth, Physical Education and Tourism.

In July 1986, Leszek Miller was elected the 1st Secretary of the PZPR Provincial Committee in Skierniewice.

After the PZPR was dissolved, Leszek Miller became a co-founder of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic ( till March 1993, he was Secretary General, then Deputy Chairman and, from December 1997, the Chairman of that party ).

In subsequent elections ( 1991 ), Leszek Miller was a leader on the election list of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic in Łódź and, following a considerable success in elections, he won a seat in the Sejm, becoming Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the Social Democracy of the Polish Republic.

When Leszek Miller got cleared of the charges, Prime Minister Cimoszewicz appointed him later as the Minister in Charge of the Office of the Council of Ministers and in 1997 the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration in his government.

In turn, Cimoszewicz became the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Leszek Miller ’ s cabinet.

Leszek Miller played an important role in concluding the case of Colonel Ryszard Kukliński, for which he was severely criticised within his political circle.

A similar disapproval was expressed after Miller ’ s support for the Concordat and the candidature of Prof. Leszek Balcerowicz to the position of President of the National Bank of Poland.

During the period of the Solidarity Electoral Action ’ s government, Leszek Miller was in charge of the parliamentary opposition, leading the political fight with the governing party.

Leszek Miller ’ s government faced a difficult economic situation in Poland, including an unemployment rate above 18 %, a high level of public debt, and economic stagnation.

On 13 December 2002, at the summit in Copenhagen ( Denmark ), Prime Minister Leszek Miller completed the negotiations with the European Union.

On 4 December 2003, Leszek Miller suffered injuries in a helicopter crash near Warsaw.

At the end of its term of office, Leszek Miller ’ s government had the lowest public support of any government since 1989.

In result of criticism in his own party, the Democratic Left Alliance, in February 2004, Leszek Miller resigned from chairing the party.

On 26 March 2004, following the decision of the Speaker of the Parliament, Marek Borowski, to found a new dissenting party, the Social Democracy of Poland, Leszek Miller decided to resign from the position of Prime Minister on 2 May 2004, a day after Poland ’ s accession to the EU.

In 2005, despite the support of the Łódź Branch of the Democratic Left Alliance, Leszek Miller was not registered on the election list to the Parliament.

After the election, Leszek Miller became active in journalism, writing mainly for the “ Wprost ” weekly on liberal economic concepts and current political issues.

* J. Machejek, A. Machejek, Leszek Miller: dogońmy Europę!

* L. Stomma, Leszek Miller WDK 2001

He wrote the first-ever comprehensive plan for the transition from central planning to a market democracy, which became incorporated into Poland ’ s highly successful reform program led by Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz.

* 2001-Dolomite ( Cortino d ’ Ampezzo ), with Katarzyna Pisera and Leszek Cichy ;

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In 1205, the Battle of Zawichost was fought nearby, in which Roman the Great of Kingdom of Galicia – Volhynia was defeated by Lesser Poland ’ s army of Leszek I the White, and Mazovian army of Konrad I of Masovia.

Leszek Kułakowski, jazz pianist and composer, is the initiator of this event and was also the first one to arrange Komeda ’ s music for symphonic orchestra.

Leszek I was a devout Roman Catholic and it was probably at his suggestion that Pope Innocent III sent his envoys to Roman in 1204, urging him to accept Roman Catholicism and promising to place him under the protection of St Peter ’ s sword.

After the elections, the coalition was joined by the Polish People's Party ( PSL ) in forming a government and Leszek Miller became the Prime Minister.

Belka, another former SLD member, had left the party in the early 1990s, but joined Leszek Miller's government as a non-party minister of economic affairs in 2001 before resigning the following year.

In 1227 during a meeting of Piast Dukes in Gąsawa, Henry the Bearded and the High Duke Leszek I the White were trapped in an ambush, as a result of which Leszek was killed and the Silesian Duke was seriously wounded ; this was the first time that the government rested on the shoulders of young Henry.

Leszek Balcerowicz ( pronounced: ; born January 19, 1947 in Lipno ) is a Polish economist, the former chairman of the National Bank of Poland and Deputy Prime Minister in Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government.

Discontent with high unemployment, government spending cuts ( especially on health, education and welfare ), affairs related to privatizations was compounded by a series of corruption scandals, leading to the resignation of the Prime Minister Leszek Miller in May 2004, who was succeeded by Marek Belka.

Some of the early accusations include highly disproportional coverage of SLD in 1997-2001, when SLD leader Leszek Miller was given more airtime than all members of the government combined ( according to some calculations ), airing a documentary claiming Lech Kaczyński's involvement in the FOZZ scandal just before the elections ( later found to be baseless ), and a general bias in coverage of political news.

One of the stages of this war was also the trip taken by Bolesław together with Bolesław V the Chaste and Leszek II the Black in the autumn of 1273 in order to visit Władysław of Opole, an ally of the Premyslid dynasty.

In the summer of 1214, Andrew had a meeting with Grand Duke Leszek I of Poland and they agreed that they would divide the Principality of Halych between Hungary and Poland.

However, Andrew denied to transfer the agreed territories to Duke Leszek I who made an alliance with Prince Mstilav of Novgorod and they drove away Andrew's troops from the principality.

Shortly afterwards, Andrew made an alliance again with Leszek I and they occupied Halych where again Andrew's son was appointed to prince.

Bishop Christian asked the new Pope Honorius III for the consent to start another Crusade, however a first campaign in 1217 proved a failure and even the joint efforts by Duke Konrad with the Polish High Duke Leszek I the White and Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia in 122 / 23 only led to the reconquest of Chełmno Land but did not stop the Prussian invasions.

His parents broke up when Leszek was six months old ; his father, Florian, left the family and Leszek has never maintained any contact with him.

He rejected the theory of class struggle and the Marxist concern with labor, instead claiming, according to Leszek Kołakowski, that since " all questions of material existence have been solved, moral commands and prohibitions are no longer relevant.

Since its inception in 1994, the UW had to cope with internal frictions between various factions: liberal socialists ( such as Leszek Balcerowicz ), those proposing a more liberal economic agenda in a more conservative, bourgeois guise ( such as Donald Tusk ), more progressive social democrats such as Jacek Kuroń, and intellectual former civil rights activists such as Bronisław Geremek or Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who also has a strong background in liberal Catholicism and leans towards Christian democracy.

The Quay Brothers ' works ( 1979 – present ) show a wide range of often esoteric influences, starting with the Polish animators Walerian Borowczyk and Jan Lenica and continuing with the writers Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Robert Walser and Michel de Ghelderode, puppeteers Wladyslaw Starewicz and Richard Teschner and composers Leoš Janáček, Zdeněk Liška and Leszek Jankowski, the last of whom has created many original scores for their work.

The SLD went on to form a coalition with the agrarian PSL and leftist Labour Union ( UP ), with Leszek Miller as Prime Minister.

In 1261 his father, stuck in an ongoing conflict with Duke Bolesław the Pious of Greater Poland, had to cede the Duchy of Sieradz to Leszek.

After Ziemomysł was expelled by Bolesław the Pious due to his alliance with the Pomerelian duke Sambor II, Leszek also became Duke of Kuyavia in 1273, but allowed his brother to return five years later.

In September 2007 the former Polish prime minister Leszek Miller become affiliated with Samoobrona, when he decided to run for the Sejm from their lists.

In the following internal struggle for supremacy among the Piast dynasty, Duke Henry I the Bearded of Silesia prevailed, who unchallengedly ruled the Seniorate Province at Kraków from 1232 onwards and vested minor Bolesław with the Sandomierz duchy once held by his father Leszek.

*( born 1967 ) Leszek Czajkowski, Polish poet, songwriter, composer and publicist ; along with Jacek Kaczmarski, known as " bard of Polish right "

Along with Leszek Miller, he signed the Accession Treaty that paved way to Polish membership in the European Union.

After that Leszek cooperated closely with Archbishop Henry Kietlicz in implementing the reforms of Innocent III.

Leszek fought with Hungary over control of Halich Rus but was not able to extend his rule into that land.