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Mr George PAPANDREOU (Greece, SOC)

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Representative
Deputy
PASOK - Movement for Change (PASOK-KINAL)

House of Parliament
GR - 10021 - Athens
Greece

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2025 , 2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021

Latest news

08/04/2025 - Session Current affairs debate on the 'Protests and rallies in the Western Balkans and Central Europe' 15/11/2024 - Monitoring PACE monitors to visit Hungary 08/11/2024 - Election observation Forum Talk on the integrity of electoral processes and its impact on representative democracy 25/06/2024 - Session Strengthening participatory and deliberative processes to revitalise democracy 18/06/2024 - Political Affairs and Democracy Strengthening participatory and deliberative processes to revitalise democracy

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Auditor: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group since 22/01/2024
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 23/01/2023 to 21/01/2024
  • Auditor: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 25/01/2021 to 23/04/2023
  • Member: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 27/01/2020 to 24/01/2021
  • Vice-Chairperson: Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group from 30/09/2019 to 26/01/2020

In the Assembly

  • since 30/09/2019 Representative - Greece

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

  • General Rapporteur on Democracy: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 22/01/2024)
  • Second Vice-Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 22/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 09/10/2023)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 27/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (from 30/09/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Youth and the Society of the Future (since 23/01/2024)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (from 12/10/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 20/03/2023 to 31/12/2023)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 27/01/2022 to 22/01/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Democracy (from 27/01/2022 to 31/12/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 26/01/2021 to 08/10/2023)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 02/10/2019 to 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Mr Alexis TSIPRAS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 09/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr George KATROUGALOS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 30/09/2019 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Evripidis STYLIANIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Education and Democratic Values (from 21/03/2024 to 14/04/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Alexis TSIPRAS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Western Balkans (since 25/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Culture, Diversity and Heritage (from 12/10/2023 to 21/01/2024)
  • Alternate of Mr Anastasios CHATZIVASILEIOU (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Disability, Multiple and Intersectional Discrimination (from 25/01/2022 to 08/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Ms Nina KASIMATI (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Gender Equality (from 30/01/2020 to 24/01/2021)
  • Alternate of Mr George KATROUGALOS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 03/10/2019 to 08/10/2023)

Interventions

Last speeches

08/04/2025 | 18:19:36 Thanks to all the colleagues for their comments. With all due respect to my colleague Mr Zsolt NÉMETH, whom I know is both a decent and very capable person, what I see is a campaign, even repression from Hungary to the United States against diversity, against migrants, against minorities, labelling them as a threat, criminalising peaceful protests. But the real threat is the concentration of power, control of free media, taking power from local governments, corruption, which has killed people... 08/04/2025 | 17:10:09 Dear fellow Europeans, From Sarajevo to Sofia, from Belgrade to Bratislava, from Budapest to Bucharest, from Athens to Istanbul, people are rising up not with violence, but with courage and hope with a desire for dignity and democracy. In Skopje, their slogan echoes "Who is next?" after a fire in Kočani stole the lives of 59 young people, victims of corruption and neglect. In Bratislava, Slovak and European Union (EU) flags fly side-by-side as crowds declare "Slovakia is Europe", "Our future... 25/06/2024 | 11:54:55 My Report is a call for the spirit of educated engagement where we can bring all into our political life. As someone mentioned – Mr Ioannis OIKONOMOU – in ancient Athens, politics was not simply a fight for power, it was a capacity to imagine a much better future collectively and actually make it happen. And on the contrary, Lord David BLENCATHRA, democracy was a way to make sure that we do not have concentration of power. And as Lord George FOULKES said earlier, this is one of the big... 25/06/2024 | 10:06:51 Esteemed colleagues, A few days ago I was in a lively discussion with a young woman. She posed a question: Does my vote even matter? I answered: Yes. If politics seems slow and complex, every vote does count. Democracy is a process, a change that takes time and effort. Yet her feelings need to be recognised by us all, as they represent many young voters and, I would add, many parts of our society. Her questions challenge our understanding of the strains of disillusionment, such as what has... 11/10/2023 | 15:49:16 It's heart-wrenching to witness the anguish caused by terror, to feel the pain of families torn apart, and the agony of those whose children are held captive in Gaza. These horrors are beyond imagination, yet they are an ugly reality. These atrocities transcend the bounds of imagination, yet they are an inescapable reality. In the strongest of turns we must resolutely denounce the extremist Hamas for their unforgivably barbaric deeds. For many of us in this room, this horror and terror have...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

10/06/2024 | Doc. 16001 | Report Strengthening democracy through participatory and deliberative processes 26/09/2022 | Doc. 15619 | Report The honouring of membership obligations to the Council of Europe by Hungary 23/09/2022 | Doc. 15609 | Report Supporting a European perspective for the Western Balkans 24/08/2021 | Doc. 15351 | Report More participatory democracy to tackle climate change

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

23/04/2025 | Doc. 16113 | Written declaration Kazakhstan: systematic violations of human rights and political freedoms through judicial, financial and transnational repression must end 08/04/2025 | Doc. 16155 | Written declaration Upholding the rights to protest: defending the Budapest Pride march 02/04/2025 | Doc. 16141 | Written declaration Political persecution of Ekrem İmamoğlu and the erosion of democracy in Türkiye 14/03/2025 | Doc. 16132 | Motion for a resolution Advancing a shared European vision through arts and leadership education 10/02/2025 | Doc. 16058 | Written declaration Elections in Georgia – alarming developments

Votes on adopted texts

08/04/2025 | Doc. 16131, vote on the draft text for recommendation Foreign interference a threat to democratic security in Europe 28/01/2025 | Doc. 16093, vote on the draft text for resolution The absolute and urgent need to end the humanitarian crisis for women, children and the hostages in Gaza 26/06/2024 | Doc. 16000, vote on the draft text for resolution The role of sanctions in countering the Russian Federation’s war of aggression against Ukraine 26/06/2024 | Doc. 16003, vote on the draft text for resolution Countering the erasure of cultural identity in war and peace 26/06/2024 | Doc. 16003, vote on the draft text for recommendation Countering the erasure of cultural identity in war and peace