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 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 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 1936 births Living people Italian journalists Italian Republican Party politicians Forza Italia politicians MEPs for Italy 2004–2009 Forza Italia MEPs MEPs for Italy 1999–2004 Commanders of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Austrian people of Polish descent Austrian people of Italian descent Austrian emigrants to Poland Austrian emigrants to Italy Polish emigrants to Italy Polish people of Italian descent