Aloyzas Sakalas
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Aloyzas Sakalas is a Lithuanian
politician
, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
, and Member of the European Parliament
with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
. Aloyzas Sakalas is also a part of the Socialist Group
and sits on the European Parliament
's Committee on Legal Affairs
.
Aloyzas Sakalas is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs
and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus
.
Politics of Lithuania
Politics of Lithuania takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Lithuania is the head of government, and of a multi-party system....
politician
Politician
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, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania
The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 was an independence declaration by the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic adopted on March 11, 1990...
, and Member of the European Parliament
Member of the European Parliament
A Member of the European Parliament is a person who has been elected to the European Parliament. The name of MEPs differ in different languages, with terms such as europarliamentarian or eurodeputy being common in Romance language-speaking areas.When the European Parliament was first established,...
with the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
Social Democratic Party of Lithuania
The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania is a centre-left and social democratic political party in Lithuania. It is the oldest party in Lithuania, founded in 1896. The party's president since 2009 is Algirdas Butkevičius. The party led a minority government in the unicameral Seimas, Lithuania's...
. Aloyzas Sakalas is also a part of the Socialist Group
Party of European Socialists
The Party of European Socialists is a European political party led by Sergei Stanishev, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria. The PES comprises social-democratic national-level political parties primarily from Member state of the European Union, as well as other nations of the European continent. The...
and sits on the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...
's Committee on Legal Affairs
Committee on Legal Affairs
The Committee on Legal Affairs is a committee of the European Parliament.It is preparing many crucial decisions of the European Parliament. It met on 20 and 21 June 2005 and debated and voted on the Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions.-External links:*...
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Aloyzas Sakalas is a substitute for the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Committee on Foreign Affairs (EU)
The Committee on Foreign Affairs , previously called Political Affairs, is a committee of the European Parliament...
and a member of the Delegation for relations with Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
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Education
- 1960: DegreeAcademic degreeAn academic degree is a position and title within a college or university that is usually awarded in recognition of the recipient having either satisfactorily completed a prescribed course of study or having conducted a scholarly endeavour deemed worthy of his or her admission to the degree...
in EngineeringEngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
from the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute - 1970: Doctorate
- 1972: Associate Professor
- 1977: Qualification as a Professor of Physics and Mathematics
- 1980: Professor at the University of Vilnius
Career
- 1960-1962: Engineer at the Institute for Electrographics
- 1982-1990: Lecturer of the Associate Professor and Professor at the University of Vilnius
- 1989-1991: Member of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LDSP)
- 1991-1999: Chairman of the LSDP
- since 1999: Honorary Chairman of the LSDP
- 1990-1992: Chairman of the Committee on the Verification of Credentials of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania
- 1992-1996: Deputy President of Parliament
- 1996-2004: Member of Parliament
- 2000-2004: Chairman of the Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs
- 1993-2004: Chairman of the organisation 'Help Lithuanian Children'
- Honours