Nikolas Farantouris (born 28 January 1976) is a Greek politician. He was elected as a

member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

for the

Syriza The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance ( el, Συνασπισμός Ριζοσπαστικής Αριστεράς – Προοδευτική Συμμαχία, Synaspismós Rizospastikís Aristerás – Proodeftikí Simachía), ...

party in

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. He has worked as a lawyer at Goldman Sachs and the international law firm Norton Rose in London, Brussels and Athens.

Political career

He is a member of

with an active political presence. In the national elections of

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and June 2023 he was a candidate for MP with SYRIZA in the single-member constituency of

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, but was not elected. Farantouris ran with SYRIZA in the 2024 European Parliament elections, where he was elected.

References

1976 births Living people Syriza MEPs MEPs for Greece 2024–2029 21st-century Greek politicians {{Greece-MEP-stub