Giorgos Kyrtsos | |
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| Member of the European Parliament forGreece | |
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| Born | 4 June 1952 Athens,Greece |
| Political party | European People's Party (2019–2022) Renew Europe (2022–2023) |
Giorgos Kyrtsos (Greek:Γιώργος Κύρτσος) is a Greek politician who has been serving as aMember of the European Parliament since 2014.[1]
In parliament, Kyrtsos has been serving on theCommittee on Economic and Monetary Affairs since 2014. In 2019, he also joined theCommittee on Foreign Affairs.[2]
In addition to his committee assignments, Kyrtsos has been part of the Parliament's delegations for relations with theNATO Parliamentary Assembly (2014–2019) and with the Arab Peninsula (since 2019).[3]
Kyrtsos was expelled fromNew Democracy on 18 February 2022 following his criticism of the government ofPrime MinisterKyriakos Mitsotakis for curtailing press freedom.[4][failed verification] On 4 May 2022, he left the EPP and joinedRenew Europe.[5][6]
In 2019, Kyrtsos publicly endorsed policy proposals put forward byGreek Solution founderKyriakos Velopoulos according which illegal immigrants to Greece are to be sent to remote, uninhabited islands to await deportation.[7]
In November 2021, Kyrtsos joined a group of seven Members of the European Parliament led byRaphaël Glucksmann toTaiwan to send a strong signal in support of the self-ruling island, despite a threat of retaliation from China.[8]
In 2022, Kyrtsos and his colleagueMarkus Ferber tabled several amendments to paragraphs relating to theEuropean Central Bank's climate strategy in a report by the Parliament, criticizing ECB PresidentChristine Lagarde's plan to take greater account of the environment in core policy decisions as a "distraction" from the bank's duty to tame inflation.[9]
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