Evangelos Venizelos is a Greek academic and politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of Greece and Minister for Foreign Affairs from 25 June 2013 to 27 January 2015.
17 Facts About Evangelos Venizelos
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Evangelos Venizelos was a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement for the first electoral district of Thessaloniki.
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Evangelos Venizelos is a Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
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On 18 March 2012, Venizelos was elected unopposed to replace George Papandreou as PASOK president and led the party in the May 2012 general election as well as the June 2012 general election.
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Evangelos Venizelos was born in Thessaloniki on 1 January 1957.
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Evangelos Venizelos is unrelated to his famous namesake, Eleftherios Venizelos.
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Evangelos Venizelos is married to Lila A Bakatselou and has a daughter.
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Evangelos Venizelos was an undergraduate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 1974 through 1978 and completed postgraduate studies at Pantheon-Assas University in France.
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Evangelos Venizelos is the author of a number of books, monographs and papers, including most recently Agenda 16 in 2007, a collection of writings about the future of the university system in Greece, including some articles previously published on the web.
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Evangelos Venizelos strongly opposes the clash of civilizations theory, and has written extensively about the Greek "civilization of civilizations".
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Evangelos Venizelos was elected as a PASOK MP in the Thessaloniki A constituency in the general elections of 1993,1996,2000,2004,2007 and 2009.
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Evangelos Venizelos has been a member of the parliamentary committee for the Revision of the Constitution, on which he was spokesman for the majority party in the parliaments elected in 1993,1996,2000,2004 and 2007.
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Evangelos Venizelos was a member of the Standing Committees on National Defence and Foreign Affairs, on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice and on European Affairs.
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In parliament, Evangelos Venizelos currently serves on the Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency and on the Special Permanent Committee on monitoring the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Evangelos Venizelos has been a member of the PASOK Central Committee since 1990.
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On 1 June 2019 Evangelos Venizelos left PASOK and KINAL in protest against the political line of the new leader Fofi Gennimata.
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Evangelos Venizelos was active in the Macedonia naming dispute, when elements in Greece opposed the use of the name "Macedonia" by the newly independent neighbouring Republic of Macedonia.