BAKOYANNIS, DORA
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Ms Dora BAKOYANNIS (Greece, EPP/CD)

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Representative
Deputy
New Democracy (ND)

House of Parliament
GR - 10021 - Athens
Greece

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2024 , 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , 2020

Latest news

16/04/2024 - Session PACE recommends that Kosovo* becomes a member of the Council of Europe 27/03/2024 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE committee recommends that Kosovo* be invited to become a member of the Council of Europe 31/10/2023 - Political Affairs and Democracy PACE rapporteur to make fact-finding visit to Kosovo* 25/01/2021 - Session The Assembly elects its Vice-Presidents 05/03/2019 - Political Affairs and Democracy The creation of a Constitutional Committee is indispensable for the political transition towards peace and stability in Syria

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party since 11/10/2018
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 08/02/2018 to 10/10/2018
  • Vice-Chairperson: Group of the European People's Party from 02/10/2013 to 07/02/2018
  • Member: Group of the European People's Party from 01/10/2012 to 01/10/2013

In the Assembly

  • since 01/10/2012 Representative - Greece
  • from 25/01/2010 to 21/05/2010 Representative - Greece
  • from 15/05/2000 to 27/01/2003 Representative - Greece

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

  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2023)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 25/01/2021 to 23/01/2023)
  • Ex officio (Rule 14.3 of the Rules of Procedure): Bureau of the Assembly (from 30/09/2019 to 21/05/2021)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (since 30/09/2019)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 25/01/2016)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Bureau of the Assembly (from 26/01/2015 to 19/04/2015)
  • Vice-President of the Assembly: Standing Committee (from 26/01/2015 to 19/04/2015)
  • Chairperson: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Standing Committee (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Chairperson of the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy: Bureau of the Assembly (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Ex officio (Rule 44.1 of the Rules of Procedure): Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Member: Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (from 05/10/2012 to 30/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 01/10/2012)
  • Chairperson of national delegation: Standing Committee (from 01/10/2012 to 19/04/2015)
  • Member (Co-rapporteur on the Russian Federation): Sub-Committee on Conflicts concerning Council of Europe Member States (from 23/01/2017 to 26/04/2018)
  • Chairperson: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 27/01/2016 to 24/01/2018)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 27/01/2016 to 22/01/2019)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (since 27/01/2016)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2014 to 26/01/2014)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on relations with the OECD and the EBRD (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Ex officio: Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 27/01/2014 to 24/01/2016)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)
  • Full Member: Sub-Committee on External Relations (from 02/10/2012 to 20/01/2013)
  • Alternate of Mr Alexis TSIPRAS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (since 12/10/2023)
  • Alternate of Mr Ioannis DRAGASAKIS (Full Member): Sub-Committee on the Middle East and the Arab World (from 24/01/2013 to 26/01/2014)

Interventions

Last speeches

16/04/2024 | 17:27:44 Thank you, Mister President. For the next couple of hours we will be touching upon a deeply complicated issue, entrenched with particularities and nuances we might have never faced before in the Parliamentary Assembly. But again, this very reason might be precisely why there could be no better place to discuss this issue than here. This year the Council of Europe celebrates 75 years of existence. For the last 75 years, the Council of Europe and its Parliamentary Assembly protected and... 12/10/2022 | 11:22:30 Thank you, Mr President. Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Group of the European People's Party allow me to thank the rapporteurs for the work and the Monitoring Committee for its meticulous observations. We must confess nonetheless that this report is alarming. It's a signal that should activate us all in this Parliamentary Assembly - but above all, and most of all, the Turkish delegation. The report validates a harsh reality. Democracy in Türkiye has been deteriorating so fast and so much... 11/10/2022 | 10:50:09 Dear colleagues, The Western Balkans produce more history than they can consume, said Churchill. Yet, that history today lacks honouring. It needs recognition as it is none other than part of our history, European history. The report in question reaffirms the support for the European Union prospect of the Western Balkans. A promise that has been forgotten and is long overdue to the people of that region. I want to congratulate the rapporteur Mr George PAPANDREOU for his excellent work... 21/06/2022 | 10:24:31 Thank you, Mr President. I want to congratulate and thank Mr Bogdan KLICH on the draft report and recommendations he presented to us today. As I told him in Chania during the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy meeting, this report will be crucial for the future of this organisation. It constitutes one of the few opportunities we have to situate the Council of Europe at the heart of the European architecture during difficult times, times of revisionism and war. I want to underline... 15/03/2022 | 11:03:01 Thank you, Chair. Dear colleagues, Today is an historic moment for our organisation. A moment of action but also of reflection. Putin's aggression against Ukraine's territorial integrity, against its democracy and its people, and 150 000 thousand Greeks in Mariupol, has no excuse, no ground for justification. It is an act that contradicts international law, contradicts international order. An act that takes Europe back 70 years. Our message is clear: there can be no place for a member State...

Activities

Reports and committee opinions

28/03/2024 | Doc. 15958 | Report Application by Kosovo* for membership of the Council of Europe 16/05/2019 | Doc. 14889 | Report Situation in Syria: prospects for a political solution? 30/09/2014 | Doc. 13618 | Report Threats against humanity posed by the terrorist group known as “IS”: violence against Christians and other religious or ethnic communities

Motions, Written Declarations, Questions

24/04/2024 | Doc. 15915 | Written declaration Iran: people's rights against repression 15/04/2024 | Doc. 15962 | Written declaration Appeal to the United States Congress 01/02/2024 | Doc. 15849 | Written declaration Human rights situation in Iran 26/01/2024 | Doc. 15915 | Written declaration Iran: people's rights against repression 12/10/2023 | Doc. 15849 | Written declaration Human rights situation in Iran

Votes on adopted texts

16/04/2024 | Doc. 15932, vote on the draft text for resolution Support for the reconstruction of Ukraine 16/04/2024 | Doc. 15932, vote on the draft text for recommendation Support for the reconstruction of Ukraine 16/04/2024 | Doc. 15958, vote on the draft text for opinion Application by Kosovo* for membership of the Council of Europe 23/01/2024 | Doc. 15890, vote on the draft text for resolution Recent developments in the Middle East: Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel and Israel’s response 12/10/2022 | Doc. 15618, vote on the draft text for resolution The honouring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye