Dimitrios Droutsas


Dimitrios P. Droutsas is a Greek lawyer and politician, who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece in 20102011. He became MP of the European Parliament by replacing Stavros Lambrinidis, who went on to become Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece.

Droutsas was born on August 5, 1968 in Nicosia, Cyprus, the son of a Greek father and a German mother from Frankfurt am Main. After primary school the family moved to Vienna, where his father worked at the Greek embassy. In Vienna he was educated at the Theresianum and later studied at University of Vienna School of Law, graduating in 1994 with a paper on the accession of Cyprus to the European Union. Subsequently, Droutsas worked as an assistant professor of European Law at the European Affairs Research Centre of the Vienna University of Economics and Business. In parallel, Droutsas was a legal advisor of the Austrian Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schssel between 1998 and 1999.

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