Marek Maciej Siwiec is a Polish politician and since 2004 Member of the European Parliament for the Greater Poland Voivodship with the Democratic Left Alliance-Labor Union, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs. In the European elections of 2004 he obtained 36 985 votes. He was re-elected MEP in 2009, gaining 64 976 votes. From January 2007 to June 2009 he served as Vice-President of the European Parliament. He also chaired the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. On 12 January 2010, he criticised the current EU policy toward the country saying in the European Parliament "Ukraine is in political chaos, which I think suits many people in the EU". He was observer of the elections in Ukraine in 2006 and 2010. Previously he was notable as Chief of the Polish National Security Bureau under President Aleksander Kwa?niewski. Currently he serves as a coordinator of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats for the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly. 

February 13th, 1955 in Piekary ?l?skie (Age 69)