 Information Office of the Opole Voivodeship in Brussels

The Information Office of the Opole Voivodeship in Brussels (known as the Biuro Informacyjne Województwa Opolskiego w Brukseli in Polish), founded in 2000, acts as an office of the Polish region’s interests in the European Union institutions.It was proposed by Tomasz Kamusella in late 1998 to the incoming first-ever Regional President of the Opole Voivodeship, Stanisław Jałowiecki, as one of a set of institutions that should prepare the region to the full participation in the process of European integration, and then run the region’s participation in this process after Poland's accession to the European Union.