Dimitrios Papadimoulis

Dimitrios Papadimoulis
Δημήτρης Παπαδημούλης
Papadimoulis in 2014
Vice-President of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2024
President	Martin Schulz Antonio Tajani David Sassoli Roberta Metsola
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 16 July 2024
In office 20 July 2004 – 13 July 2009
Constituency	Greece
Member of the Hellenic Parliament
In office 4 October 2009 – 2 May 2014
Constituency	Athens B
Personal details
Born	(1955-03-21) 21 March 1955 (age 69) Athens, Greece
Political party	New Left (2023–present)
Other political affiliations	Synaspismos (until 2012) Syriza (2012–2023)
Alma mater	National Technical University of Athens

Dimitrios Papadimoulis (Greek: Δημήτρης Παπαδημούλης, romanized: Dimítris Papadimoúlis; born 21 March 1955) is a Greek politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) as a member of The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL.^[1]

Personal life

Papadimoulis was born in 1955 in Athens. He attended the Varvakeio Junior High School of Athens and studied the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. He is married to Nadia Soubasaki and has two children.^[2]

Career

Papadimoulis was an MEP from 2004 to 2009.^[1]

From 2009 to 2014 he was a member of the Greek parliament.

Since 2014, he has again been an MEP.^[1] Since 1 July 2014, he has been one of the simultaneous 14 Vice Presidents of the European Parliament.^[1] Since 2014, Papadimoulis has been the only Greek Vice President of the European Parliament. According to the VoteWatch.EU, he is the most influential Greek MEP in the European Parliament. In the Parliamentary Evaluation Report on the term 2014–2019, published by "Vote Watch Europe", Dimitris Papadimoulis was evaluated as the Greek MEP with the greatest influence on the European Institutions. In an earlier report by VoteWatch.EU, he was also one of the three most active MEPs in the entire European Parliament, for the period 2004–2009.

On 18 January 2022, he was re-elected as vice-president of the European Parliament for the fourth consecutive time, with the support of a broad cross-party majority and with a 74.77% share of the vote, garnering 492 positive votes out of a total of 658 valid ballots. Since 2014 he was the only Greek and the only representative from the GUE-NGL political group at the Presidium of the European Parliament.

See also

• List of members of the European Parliament for Greece, 2009–14
• Political groups of the European Parliament

References

1. European Parliament. "Dimitrios Papadimoulis". Retrieved 8 February 2015.
2. "Curriculum Vitae". Dimitris Papadimoulis – Vice President of the European Parliament. 22 May 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2024.

Further reading

• Israel, Stefan. "Interview with Dimitrios Papadimoulis". Tagesanzeiger (in German). Retrieved 8 February 2015.
• "Von Wundern, Jesus und Juncker" [Of Miracles, Jesus and Juncker]. Wiener Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 8 February 2015.
• "Influence Index 2020: Most influential Greek MEP" [Dimitrios Papadimoulis]. Retrieved 16 December 2020.

External links

• Personal profile of Dimitrios Papadimoulis in the European Parliament's database of members
• Terms of office of Dimitrios Papadimoulis at the Hellenic Parliament (in English)
• Personal website (GR and EN) www.papadimoulis.gr