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Mr Theodoros ROUSOPOULOS

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 24/01/2022
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 30/09/2019 to 23/01/2022

In the Assembly

  • since 24/01/2022 Representative - Greece
  • from 30/09/2019 to 23/01/2022 Substitute - Greece

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

  • Chairperson: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 24/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Bureau of the Assembly (since 24/01/2022)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons: Standing Committee (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons (since 03/10/2019)
  • Full Member: Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (from 30/09/2019 to 26/01/2020)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (since 24/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (since 24/01/2022)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings (since 24/01/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas and Integration (from 30/01/2020 to 20/03/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Refugee and Migrant Children and Young People (from 02/12/2019 to 20/03/2022)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Diasporas (from 02/12/2019 to 28/01/2020)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on Education, Youth and Sport (since 01/10/2019)
  • Alternate of Ms Foteini PIPILI (Full Member): Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (since 27/01/2020)
  • Alternate of Ms Nina KASIMATI (Full Member): Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (from 30/09/2019 to 02/10/2019)
  • Alternate of Mr Alexandros TRIANTAFYLLIDIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on Media and Information Society (since 01/10/2019)

Interventions

Last speeches

23/06/2022 | 16:02:16 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, Millions of migrants attempt to reach Europe hoping for a better future for themselves and their loved ones. This has triggered tremendous pressure on frontline countries and we all know it. For this reason, finding an adequate solution to migration pressure in Europe is essential. We must be very careful though in bringing the right answers to problems we are facing. Solutions considered must on no account be to the detriment of human rights... 22/06/2022 | 18:55:14 Thank you, Mister President. Dear colleagues, We are about to vote for extremely important and timely reports. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteurs for their rapid reaction, for their substantive work, and for having proposed realistic and to-the-point recommendations. Madam Mariia MEZENTSEVA, you already said it when you were appointed for this report. You probably never thought that your own country would be faced with the most terrible aggression from the Russian Federation... 15/03/2022 | 12:55:16 Dear colleagues, The last diplomat who remains in Mariupol is the Greek Consul George Androulakis. He is trapped there. Mariupol and the places around are places where Greeks are living for the last 3 000 years. At least 150 000 Greeks are living there. The first 12 people who were killed in the place were Greeks. But it's not only about my compatriots. It is about fundamental freedoms. We're discussing the report of my colleague Ms Ingjerd SCHOU whom I congratulate for her work. What does... 27/01/2022 | 17:12:46 Well, I'm very interested in all of this for various reasons. Firstly, I think it is important. We have to come to some kind of agreement to ensure that issues of history not always lead to dissent. We know that can be a weapon. It's often used in this way. I think this is characterised by various attempts. Attempts for example to teach history. It needs to be done in an objective and interesting way. That brings me to some conclusions. Let's jump back some decades when we ourselves were at... 25/01/2022 | 18:52:38 Thank you Mr President. Ladies and Gentlemen, dear colleagues, Of course, I support the excellent report of our colleague Ms Annicka ENGBLOM. It is a very important and timely report. During the antiquity, the Greeks used to say that there is nothing new. I refer to the period in history when journalists were persecuted and condemned. Through The Times newspaper, a journalist called Howell, covering the Crimean war, we were told that the British soldiers did not have anything to eat at that...

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