Giorgos Chondros

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Giorgos Chondros (* 1958 in Mesochora) is a Greek ethnologist and politician ( Syriza ). He was the environmental policy spokesman for his party and has represented its position on the Greek sovereign debt crisis to German-speaking media since 2015 .

Giorgos Chondros

Life

Study and job

After graduating from high school, Chondros studied ethnology in Vienna from 1977 to 1985 and graduated with a diploma. He then worked in the tourism industry in Austria and Greece.

politics

During his studies, Chondros was actively involved in the student and environmental movement. Among other things, he took part in the protests against the West Runway in Frankfurt, which was then being planned , as well as in the rallies against the Hainburg dam planned by Österreichische Donaukraftwerke AG . From 1976 to 1989 he was a member of the Communist Party of Greece . He then joined the Greek coalition of the left, movements and ecology , which was founded in 1992 and has since become Syriza . There he became a member of the Central Committee and was committed to the party goals of ecology , feminism and pacifism . He also appeared as an opponent of globalization in Paris, Prague, Genoa and most recently at the Blockupy protests in Frankfurt am Main. At the same time, Chondros got involved and is involved in the events of the European Social Forum and the World Social Forum .

In 2010 Chondros was elected mayor of his hometown Mesochora and in this capacity he continued his fight against one of the largest construction projects in Greece, the Mesochora reservoir , which he had started years earlier . For this the Acheloos would have been rerouted and would have flooded Mesochora. Shortly before the end of Chondros' tenure in 2014, the project was abandoned.

Due to the knowledge of German he acquired during his studies, Chondros worked as an ambassador in a kind of “charm offensive” for his party in Germany and Austria in 2015. He participated as a discussant in talk shows and spoke about the Greek sovereign debt crisis , its effects on Greece and possible solutions. In addition, there are a number of interviews in radio broadcasts and online media that deal with the same topic and in which Chondros comment on the political events in Greece on a daily basis.

In September 2015, Chondros published his book The Truth About Greece, the Euro Crisis and the Future of Europe: The Propaganda War against Syriza , in which he reported on Greece's negotiations with the EU and the Troika , as well as what he believed to be one-sided reporting on Greece, Syriza and the Greek government it formed .

For the Viennese municipal council and district council elections in 2015 , Chondros appeared differently on the list of the Vienna electoral alliance supported by the Pirate Party of Austria , KPÖ , EchtGrün and independents and justified this with the fact that “Vienna was [his] second home” and the “fight against privatization , Welfare cuts and the banking mafia must be an international fight ”.

At the 2nd Syriza party congress in October 2016, Chondros was re-elected to the party's central committee.

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c ARD, Hart but Fair with Frank Plasberg: Giorgos Chondros. (No longer available online.) May 11, 2015, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved December 3, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Berliner Zeitung, Interview with Giorgos Chondros: Why the negotiations with Greece are so tough. May 15, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  3. ^ TAZ, Christian Jakob: At home in protest. May 15, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  4. ^ I Avgi, Giorgos Chondros, in the Greek original: Solidarity in Tunisia, of central importance for Greece (translation). March 29, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  5. ^ Kurier, Ingrid Steiner-Gashi: Cold apartments, soon without light. January 25, 2013, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Augustin No. 364, S6 - 7, Robert Sommer: A mayor from the test site called Greece. "They want to check how much a people can take". April 15, 2014, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt, Alexander Fanta: Syriza politicians on charm offensive in Vienna. January 14, 2015, archived from the original on June 25, 2015 ; Retrieved December 18, 2015 .
  8. ↑ WELT, Alexander Jürgs: Panorama "Maybrit Illner", The Greeks get on my nerves " June 5, 2015, accessed on December 18, 2015 .
  9. ^ FAZ, Heinke Göbel: TV review: Anne Will "Chaos is a Greek word". July 2, 2015, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  10. ^ SPON, Mathias Zschaler: Talk on Greece at Jauch: "The right to go under in dignity". July 6, 2015, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  11. ↑ ORF: In the center does Europe fail? - The chaos in refugee policy. September 21, 2015, accessed December 22, 2015 .
  12. ^ Kurier, Ida Metzger: "For Syriza, the euro is not a fetish". October 22, 2015, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  13. ^ N-TV, Hubertus Volmer: Interview with Giorgos Chondros "For Syriza, the euro is not a fetish". October 5, 2015, accessed December 18, 2015 .
  14. ↑ TAZ, Pascal Beucker / Anja Krüger, interview with Giorgos Chondros: Syriza politicians on Europe's left “The only communist in the village”. December 21, 2015, accessed March 11, 2018 .
  15. ^ Deutschlandradio, Frankfurter Buchmesse: Of German tax havens and Greek tax reforms. October 14, 2015, accessed December 5, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Junge Welt, edition of October 26th, 2015: Based on illusions. October 26, 2015, accessed December 22, 2015 .
  17. ↑ ots: Wien Anders submits city nominations: 100 women-100 men. September 18, 2015, accessed December 24, 2015 .
  18. ↑ Wassilis Aswestopoulos: The Party Congress of Alexis Tsipras. In: Telepolis. Retrieved November 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Chondros, Giorgos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Mesochora