Euripides Stylianidis
Minister of Transport and Communications

Evripidis Stylianidis was born on 8 April 1966 in Komotini, Rodopi Prefecture.
He is married to Giouli Papachristou and is the father of three children, Stylianos, Elena and Georgia.

Studies:
1981-1984: Graduate of the 1st Lyceum of Komotini, where he was elected president of the school community.
1984-1989: Bachelor Degree in Law, at the Law School of Democritus University of Thrace.
1991-1994: PhD in Constitutional Law, Law School of the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Foreign Languages:
German, English

Military Service:
1994-1995: Artillery Corps of the Hellenic Army.

Professional Career:
1991-1994: He worked at the Greek Foreign Ministry cooperating with the Greek General Consulate in Hamburg.
1991-2000: Lawyer at the Court of First Instance of Rodopi.
1995-1996: Special advisor to the president of the New Democracy political party.
1997-1998: He taught in the Master's degree programme in public law at the Law School of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens as a European Public Law Center (EPLC) fellow.
1997-2000: Researcher at the European Public Law Center (EPLC).

Political Activity:
1983-1984: President of the School Board of the 1st Lyceum of Komotini.

1984-1989: Director of DAP-NDFK at Democritus University of Thrace. Member of the General Secretariat of Dap-NDFK Greece. He was elected students’ delegate to the Administration body of Democritus University of Thrace, and the Central Council of E.F.E.E.
1987-1995: Member of the Central Committee of New Democracy's youth group (ONNED)
1994-1995: Elected President of the Executive Office of ONNED.
1996: Elected Member of the Greek Parliament as representative of Rodopi, first in preference votes, but the chair was denied due to the electoral law.

1997: Elected member of the Central Committee of New Democracy, first in votes during the 4th Congress of the party. Elected member of the Executive Board of New Democracy.

1999: Re-elected as a member of the Political Council of New Democracy.

2000: Elected Member of the Greek Parliament as representative of Rodopi, first in preference votes.

Parliamentary Activity
• The youngest member of the Committee for the Revision of the Greek Constitution.
• Member of the Permanent Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs and Defence.
• Representative of the Greek Parliament at the “Convention on the Future of Europe” (Constitution of Europe).
• Member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.
• He often represented the “New Democracy” Party at summits and conferences of the European People’s Party.
• 2001-2004: Deputy, domain of foreign affairs, elected by the Parliamentary Group of New Democracy.

Governmental Term
2004-2007: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of economic and energy diplomacy, and developmental cooperation.
2007-2009: Minister of National Education and Religious Affairs.
2009: Minister of Transport and Communications.

Scholarships-Awards:

1984-1985: Awarded by the Greek National Scholarships Foundation.
2002: Awarded by the German Marshall Fund (GMF) of USA (part of the Young Leaders Programme).
2003: Awarded by the French Foreign Ministry and the German Government.

Other Activities:
Publisher of three books entitled:
• “Grunrechte und Gesetzesvorbehalt in dem deutschen GG und in der griechischer Verfussung”
• “Break the silence” and
• “Against the dictatorship of mediocrities. Interference for the revision of the article 16 of the Greek Constitution”.

He has also published a series of scientific articles in Greece and abroad, and he participated in several international scientific conferences.
He is a member of the Association of Greek Constitution Law Experts, of the Greek-German Union of Jurists and the European Union for Law-Making.
Finally, he is the President of “Pandektis”, an Association of Greek Jurists for Democracy and Law-Making.

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