MEP AWARDS 2008: «PARLIAMENT MAGAZINE»

Brussels, 11/09/2008:
Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou EPP-ED, MEP from Greece, has been shortlisted by The Parliament Magazine, together with two other MEPs, to represent the Employment & social affairs category, for the quality of his work over the past year:.

Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (EPP-ED), Greece: A former academic researcher and senior education supervisor, Panayotopoulos - Cassiotou was awarded the order of the silver cross by the German president in 1994. A graduate in Greek and French literature, she is a member of parliament’s employment and social affairs committee and of the committee on women’s rights and gender equality. The 56-year-old has been MEP since 2004 and is author of a 2008 report on the situation of women in prisons. In 2007, she was rapporteur on a regulatory framework for measures enabling young women to combine family life with a period of study.