Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos

Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos, 2014

Panagiotis (Panos) Panagiotopoulos ( Greek Παναγιώτης (Πάνος) Παναγιωτόπουλος , born November 12, 1957 in Athens ) is a Greek politician . He was initially defense minister in the Samara cabinet and later moved to the ministry of culture.

biography

Panagiotopoulos studied engineering at the National Technical University of Athens , then law at the Law Faculty of the University of Athens and the University of Paris VIII in Vincennes .

Panagiotopoulos worked as a lawyer and journalist for radio and television stations and daily newspapers such as Kathimerini , To Vima , Eleftheros Typos , Apogevmatini and Vradini . In his television show "Profil" he interviewed numerous personalities such as the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomäus I , the Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan .

Already in his youth Panagiotopoulos was involved in the youth organization of the conservative Nea Dimokratia . For the first time he was elected to the Greek parliament in the general election in 2000 and has been re-elected since then. In 2007 he became the parliamentary manager of the ND parliamentary group.

From 2012 Panagiotopoulos was Minister of Defense in the Samara cabinet . The closure of the state radio and television company ERT in June 2013 resulted in DIMAR's exit from the coalition and thus a cabinet reshuffle. Panagiotopoulos became Minister of Culture. After the poor performance of Nea Dimokratia in the 2014 European elections , he was dismissed as a minister.

Web links

• Biography at enet.gr
• Video recordings of the interview between Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos and Abdullah Öcalan. Video 1 Video 2 (Turkish, Greek)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of ministers in the Samaras cabinet 2012–2015 (Greek)