Tadeusz Zwiefka


Tadeusz Antoni Zwiefka is a Polish journalist and politician. Since 2004, member of the European Parliament.

Biography

Tadeusz Zwiefka comes from Tuchola in Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship, he worked in Szczecin and Warsaw, and today he lives in Poznań.
He is an educated lawyer but he works as a journalist in Polish TV and a lecturer. He was an editor-in-chief of Polish TV regional centre in Poznań, later a journalist in central TVP1 news, parliamentary reporter, director of the Szczecin TV regional centre. He was a co-founder of the popular Telekurier reporters magazine in TVP3.
He is also an academic lecturer of TV journalism and Polish language culture in Poznań colleges and in the Higher School of Environmental Management in Tuchola. Besides his native Polish language, he speaks some German, English and Russian.
In the European elections of 13 June 2004 he was a candidate of Civic Platform in Kuyavian-Pomeranian constituency and received 26,144 votes - the best result made him the only MEP in the region.
In the 2009 elections he was re-elected to the European Parliament. He polled 82,794 votes, candidating from the Civic Platform list. He was the top scored candidate in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian constituency. On 12 September 2018, he voted in favor of approving the controversial Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market.
He received:

Golden Cross of Merit