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Mr George KATROUGALOS (Greece, UEL)

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Deputy
SY.RIZ.A

House of Parliament
GR - 10021 - Athens
Greece

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019

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Mandates

In the political groups

  • Chairperson: Group of the Unified European Left from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the Unified European Left from 02/10/2019 to 13/03/2022
  • Member: Group of the Unified European Left from 30/09/2019 to 01/10/2019

In the Assembly

  • from 30/09/2019 to 08/10/2023 Representative - Greece

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

  • Chairperson of Political Group: Presidential Committee (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Bureau of the Assembly (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Standing Committee (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 19.6 of the Rules of Procedure - Chairpersons of Political Groups): (Former) Committee on Rules of Procedure, Immunities and Institutional Affairs (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Full Member UEL: Committee on the Election of Judges to the European Court of Human Rights (from 27/01/2020 to 08/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 30/09/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Chairperson of Political Group: Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 14/03/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 04/02/2021 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 03/10/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Dimitrios KAIRIDIS (Full Member): Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (from 30/09/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 22/03/2021 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 28/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Human Rights (from 03/10/2019 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr Dimitrios KAIRIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the implementation of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (from 03/10/2019 to 27/01/2020)

Interventions

Last speeches

22/06/2023 | 16:27:13 Thank you, Tiny. Dear colleagues, Our group is not unanimous on the issue of the athletes. Some of us are following the opinion of their rapporteur. Some others have a different opinion. Take note that I'm not speaking about a majority. We didn't put that to the vote, because we did not want it to be a divisive issue diverting us from supporting the values of this Organisation and supporting Ukraine. But this is exactly my point. The discussion with this report is very divisive. Not among us... 21/06/2023 | 15:57:33 Thank you, Tiny. First of all, I would like to congratulate and commend the rapporteur for the clarity of her presentation. I reminded, also, the colleagues at the meeting of the Rules Committee that the most known passage we have from the Athenian orator Demosthenes is one saying that we need money if we want our goals to be fulfilled. What I'd like to commend most of all on her presentation is exactly that she made clear that the very ambitious goals we have set at the Reykjavík Summit must... 20/06/2023 | 17:41:41 Thank you, Madam Chair. Why do we have this debate? Mr Pieter OMTZIGT has said, and this is the first reason, that the situation regarding the rule of law in Poland has not got better but worse. Is there a liberal international conspiracy against Poland? Then, if this is the case, why is Poland's Commissioner for Human Rights even raising issues regarding the recent reform of the electoral law of March? Dear colleagues, There is a new term in constitutional law. It is called autocratic... 25/04/2023 | 18:32:47 Thank you. Thank you very much, Madam Chair. The first thing I would like to do and I admit it due to the limitation of time is to thank Ms Eleanor HOURIGAN from the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights for her valuable contribution to this report. Then I would like to thank all of you who spoke with good words for this work of mine, and I will just try to reply only to direct questions that have been posed to me and some more general remarks. I begin by the general remarks I would... 25/04/2023 | 17:16:16 Thank you very much, Madam Chair. I had the idea to propose, by a motion, this subject to discussion for a resolution, exactly because we see tension arising among the courts of the three parallel legal systems we have in our continent. We have the national legal systems; having a supreme norm, the constitution; we have, of course, our European Convention of Human Rights, and the court as the arbiter of this system, and we have also the European Union law and the Court of the European Union...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

22/11/2023 | Doc. 15868 | Report Globalisation in times of crisis and war: the role of the OECD since the Russian Federation's aggression against Ukraine 11/04/2023 | Doc. 15741 | Report European Convention on Human Rights and national constitutions 23/09/2022 | Doc. 15615 | Report The impact of Brexit on human rights on the island of Ireland 30/03/2021 | Doc. 15251 | Report Fighting fiscal injustice: the work of the OECD on taxation of digital economy

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

19/09/2023 | Doc. 15823 | Motion for a resolution Sustainable European guidelines to counter social dumping and strengthen collective bargaining mechanisms 27/06/2023 | Doc. 15754 | Written declaration Palestinian Intelligence Services must cease political harassment of human rights lawyers 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15807 | Motion for a resolution Shaping the Parliamentary Assembly’s relations with the United Nations Human Rights Council 09/05/2023 | Doc. 15692 | Written declaration Do not extradite Julian Assange to the United States 09/05/2023 | Doc. 15695 | Written declaration The United Kingdom must allow trans people to live their lives with dignity

Votes on adopted texts

22/06/2023 | Doc. 15795, vote on the draft text for resolution War of aggression against Ukraine – Participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics? 22/06/2023 | Doc. 15796, vote on the draft text for resolution Ensuring free and safe access through the Lachin Corridor 22/06/2023 | Doc. 15796, vote on the draft text for recommendation Ensuring free and safe access through the Lachin Corridor 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15780, vote on the draft text for opinion Budgets and priorities of the Council of Europe for the period 2024-2027 21/06/2023 | Doc. 15781, vote on the draft text for resolution Expenditure of the Parliamentary Assembly for the biennium 2024-2025