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Mr Ioannis OIKONOMOU (Greece, EPP/CD)

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Substitute
Deputy
New Democracy (ND)

House of Parliament
GR - 10021 - Athens
Greece

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Group of the European People's Party since 22/01/2024

In the Assembly

  • since 22/01/2024 Substitute - Greece

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

  • Full Member: (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 07/03/2024 to 27/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 22/01/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Culture, Education and Democratic Values (since 28/01/2026)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (from 19/03/2024 to 27/01/2025)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Public Health and Sustainable Development (from 25/01/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS (Full Member): Special Committee on the New Democratic Pact (since 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Dimitrios MANTZOS (Full Member): Committee on Migration, International Protection and Economic Co-operation (from 09/12/2025 to 25/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Dimitrios MANTZOS (Full Member): (Former) Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (from 28/01/2025 to 08/12/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Liana KANELLI (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 26/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 27/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Mr Dimitrios MARKOPOULOS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 28/01/2025 to 25/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Alexis TSIPRAS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the European Social Charter (from 25/01/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Liana KANELLI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 28/01/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Anastasios CHATZIVASILEIOU (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 19/03/2024 to 26/01/2025)
  • Alternate of Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 28/01/2025)

Interventions

Last speeches

27/01/2026 | 16:59:07 Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you to the rapporteur. Free and fair elections are a cornerstone of democracy. But times in which parliamentary terms in Europe were completed, and elections were held under conditions of normality, now seem very distant. Today, crises are the new normal, and this situation has three basic political consequences. Politics has become a magnet for people who combine public relations skills with audacity. At the same time, it has become more online than live and... 01/10/2025 | 19:58:06 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)   Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, The participation of young people in political processes touches the core of a major challenge for Europe: the quality and resilience of Democracy. Unlike what happened for many decades after the Second World War, today’s young people face additional obstacles in their pursuit of happiness: a society where inequalities are widening, a labor market that discriminates against the young, a social... 09/04/2025 | 16:31:06 Thank you, Mister Chairman. I will speak in Greek. In recent years, we have seen rising and constant concerns about human rights and democracy in Türkiye. This time round the Mayor of Istanbul was deprived of his powers on the basis of corruption charges, so we could spend hours debating the reasons for these charges, but I would like to talk about facts.  The fact that an elected official is no longer able to run for office is something which should be worrying all of us. Similarly, his... 08/04/2025 | 11:41:19 We are talking about a very interesting issue, the question of foreign interference and whether it constitutes a threat to democracy and security in Europe.  May I start by making a general point in the world since the end of the Second World War, and after it took shape after 1989, and following the phase of globalisation, that world is now falling apart. That evolution was not fully understood by our leaders in Europe nor was it sufficiently well explained to our citizens. Those facts are... 28/01/2025 | 13:31:47 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) The major global institutions, including the Council of Europe, were born in the aftermath of World War II with a dual purpose: on the one hand, to ensure that humanity would never again experience such events, and on the other, to set humanity on a path of prosperity and progress by addressing the causes that led to two World Wars and their consequences. This now being fundamentally shaken. To be honest, this destabilization didn’t happen...

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