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Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS (Greece, EPP/CD)

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Representative
Deputy
New Democracy (ND)

House of Parliament
GR - 10021 - Athens
Greece

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Latest news

01/03/2026 - Political Affairs and Democracy Hostilities in the Middle East: PACE rapporteur urges respect for international law 07/10/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy Statement by the PACE Middle East Rapporteur on the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 terrorist attacks 28/07/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy Gaza situation ‘has long since surpassed our worst nightmares’ says PACE rapporteur, demanding an end to the suffering 16/05/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE Middle East Rapporteur: Gaza’s pain must end 10/03/2025 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE Middle East rapporteur expresses alarm at reports of mass killings in Syria

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 11/10/2018
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 08/02/2018 to 10/10/2018
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party from 02/10/2013 to 07/02/2018
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 01/10/2012 to 01/10/2013

In the Assembly

  • since 01/10/2012 Representative - Greece
  • from 25/01/2010 to 21/05/2010 Representative - Greece
  • from 15/05/2000 to 27/01/2003 Representative - Greece

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (since 26/01/2026)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (since 26/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 14.3 of the Rules of Procedure): Bureau of the Assembly (from 30/09/2019 to 21/05/2021)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 30/09/2019)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 25/01/2016)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 26/01/2015 to 19/04/2015)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 26/01/2015 to 19/04/2015)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Standing Committee (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Bureau of the Assembly (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 05/10/2012 to 30/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 01/10/2012)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 01/10/2012 to 19/04/2015)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 28/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 28/01/2026)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on the Russian Federation): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 23/01/2017 to 26/04/2018)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 27/01/2016 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 27/01/2016 to 22/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 27/01/2016)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2014 to 26/01/2014)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 02/10/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Alexis TSIPRAS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 12/10/2023 to 25/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Ioannis DRAGASAKIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)

Interventions

Last speeches

20/04/2026 | 12:06:45 Madam President, Allow me first to thank the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe's delegation that observed the elections in Kosovo, and especially Chairperson Mr Yunus EMRE and Vice-President Mr Georgios STAMATIS for the valuable work. The findings are indeed serious. The refusal to certify results for the main Kosovo-Serb party, the manipulation of preferential votes and discrepancies in voter records. They are not minor technicalities. They go to the heart of democratic... 28/01/2025 | 12:40:47 Thank you, Madam President. Dear colleagues, First allow me to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the President of the European Court of Human Rights,  Mr Marko BOŠNIAK, and to all of you who have spoken for your invaluable insights. The depth and breadth of your interventions are a powerful testament to the urgency Europe must embrace to address the profound challenges threatening the international rules-based order. One thing is clear from what has been said in this room: The Council of... 28/01/2025 | 10:12:49 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, allow me to begin by honouring the [inaudible, because of mic problems]. OK, I'll start again, I need a minute. Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, allow me to begin by honouring the solemn occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Holocaust. The Holocaust remains one of the darkest chapters in human history, a chilling testament to the catastrophic failure of nations to uphold a rule-based international order. It serves as a haunting... 01/10/2024 | 16:12:20 Sorry, dear colleagues. There is a fundamental rule in foreign affairs. Foreign policy should never be dictated by domestic politics. Reducing broader national interests into the opportunism of electoral campaigning and party politics is the quickest path to national tragedies. Migration is a complex international issue of threats and opportunities. As such, it requires close pan-European co-operation and co-ordination. To labour under the illusion that effective management of migration can... 16/04/2024 | 17:27:44 Thank you, Mister President. For the next couple of hours we will be touching upon a deeply complicated issue, entrenched with particularities and nuances we might have never faced before in the Parliamentary Assembly. But again, this very reason might be precisely why there could be no better place to discuss this issue than here. This year the Council of Europe celebrates 75 years of existence. For the last 75 years, the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly protected and...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

08/01/2025 | Doc. 16087 | Report The need for a renewed rules-based international order 28/03/2024 | Doc. 15958 | Report Application by Kosovo* for membership of the Council of Europe 16/05/2019 | Doc. 14889 | Report Situation in Syria: prospects for a political solution? 30/09/2014 | Doc. 13618 | Report Threats against humanity posed by the terrorist group known as “IS”: violence against Christians and other religious or ethnic communities

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

20/04/2026 | Doc. 16383 | Written declaration Urgent need to protect Syria’s endangered ethnic and religious communities 22/01/2026 | Doc. 16325 | Motion for a resolution The role of the Council of Europe in the transition to democracy in Venezuela and other Latin American countries 03/11/2025 | Doc. 16291 | Motion for a resolution Need for enhanced international co-operation on combatting human trafficking 07/10/2025 | Doc. 16255 | Written declaration Medical evacuations of Palestinian patients from Gaza: Europe must step up 27/09/2025 | Doc. 16264 | Motion for a resolution Media freedom in decline in Albania

Votes on adopted texts

28/01/2025 | Doc. 16087, vote on the draft text for recommendation The need for a renewed rules-based international order 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16087, vote on the draft text for resolution The need for a renewed rules-based international order 01/10/2024 | Doc. 16034, vote on the draft text for resolution Propaganda and freedom of information in Europe 16/04/2024 | Doc. 15932, vote on the draft text for resolution Support for the reconstruction of Ukraine 16/04/2024 | Doc. 15932, vote on the draft text for recommendation Support for the reconstruction of Ukraine