Theodoros Pangalos

Theodoros Pangalos (Greek Θεόδωρος Πάγκαλος, born August 17, 1938 in Elefsina ) is a Greek politician. He was from 2009 to 2012 Deputy Prime Minister.

Life

Theodoros Pangalos came from a arvanitischen family and is the grandson of the same general and dictator. He studied law and economics at the University of Athens. In 1973 he received a doctorate in economics at the University of Sorbonne in Paris, where he worked as a lecturer in research and also as director of the Institute of Economic Development until 1978.

Pangalos participated in the resistance against the Greek military dictatorship (1967-1974), the 1968 Greek citizenship but knew him. Since his first election in 1981 Pangalos represents as PASOK deputy Attica in the Vouli.

1982 to 1984 he was Secretary of Commerce, then to 1985, State Secretary in the Foreign Office, 1985-1989 and 1993/1994 Deputy Foreign Minister with responsibility for European issues.

In 1994, he became Minister of Transport and Communications and from January 1996 to February 1999 Foreign Minister. In February 1999, Pangalos was forced to resign as foreign minister after he left smuggle the refugees who fled to Greece Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan in the Greek embassy in Kenya, where it was arrested and handed over to the Turkish authorities.

In 2000, he returned as Minister of Culture back into government. This office he held until November 2000.

Pangalos fell several times because of drastic and undiplomatic statements in the policy debate:

• Germany he described as a " giant with the power of a monster and the mind of a child "
• Turkish politicians are " robbers, murderers and rapists " and sneaked " with their boots on the blood-stained carpets in Europe "
• The statement, " In the corridors of the Foreign Ministry they speak English " referred to the office of the U.S. born Foreign Minister Giorgos Papandreou.
• " After 2000, we ( the PASOK government ) failed in virtually all areas, we ravaged the country. "
• " Germany has destroyed during the Nazi era, the Greek economy by, in itself took all the money and gold, on the disposal, the Bank of Greece, without ever repay. "

After the victory of PASOK in the parliamentary elections of 2009, the new Prime Minister George Papandreou Pangalos appointed as deputy prime minister in his government. Pangalos was responsible for the coordination of economic and defense policy. In 2011 he was Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Papademos.

In the parliamentary elections in May 2012 Pangalos did not run.