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Konstantinos ARVANITIS

Greece Greece GUE/NGL – The Left in the European Parliament Coalition of the Radical Left

Konstantinos ARVANITIS is a Member of the European Parliament from Greece, representing Coalition of the Radical Left in the The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) group. In the 10th parliamentary term (2024–2029), Konstantinos has submitted 1031 amendments, delivered 56 speeches, authored 1 report as rapporteur and 4 as shadow rapporteur, asked 90 questions, and filed 9 motions. Vote participation stands at 76.6% (4540 out of 5928 recorded roll-call votes within the Member's mandate period). All counts shown are raw figures from official European Parliament records, not adjusted for mandate length.

Parliamentary Activity

Activity Count EP Avg vs Avg EP Rank Country Group
Amendments 1031 811.1 +220 222nd/743 6th/21 9th/46
Speeches 56 44.4 +12 143rd/743 4th/21 11th/46
Reports (Rapporteur) 1 0.8 +0 134th/743 3rd/21 6th/46
Reports (Shadow) 4 3.8 +0 220th/743 5th/21 32nd/46
Questions 90 39.7 +50 87th/743 11th/21 24th/46
Motions 9 19.6 -11 234th/743 7th/21 16th/46
Opinions (Rapporteur) 0 0.6 -1 223rd/743 3rd/21 12th/46
Opinions (Shadow) 11 2.7 +8 29th/743 2nd/21 6th/46
Explanations of Vote 1 43.0 -42 330th/743 5th/21 23rd/46
Vote Participation 76.6% 86.3% – 636th/745 16th/21 36th/47

Each row orders Members by a single recorded metric; tied values share the same rank. Counts are raw and are not adjusted for mandate length; vote participation is the share of roll-call votes cast within each Member's mandate period. EP Avg = mean across all 745 tracked Members of the 10th term, including former Members. Data: European Parliament term 10 (2024–2029).

Roles and Memberships

Committees

Substitute AGRI – Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development
Member EMPL – Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
Substitute LIBE – Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs
Member EUDS – Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield

Delegations

Substitute D-AL – Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee
Member D-MK – Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee
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Committees and delegations

Konstantinos ARVANITIS holds the committee and delegation roles listed below in the 10th term (2024–2029).

Committees

  • Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI): Substitute, since 2026-06-01. Attended 1 of 3 committee meetings held during the membership
  • Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL): Member, since 2024-07-19. Attended 27 of 38 committee meetings held during the membership
  • Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (EUDS): Member, since 2025-01-23. Attended 11 of 26 committee meetings held during the membership
  • Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 17 of 36 committee meetings held during the membership

Delegations

  • Delegation to the EU-Albania Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-AL): Substitute, since 2024-09-19
  • Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-MK): Member, since 2024-09-19

Reports and opinions

Reports as rapporteur

All 1, most recent first.

  • 2026-04-16 A10-0091/2026 REPORT on the Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report (LIBE)

Reports as shadow rapporteur

All 4, most recent first.

  • 2026-02-27 A10-0033/2026 REPORT on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities – annual report 2026 (EMPL)
  • 2025-11-13 A10-0231/2025 INTERIM REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded (LIBE)
  • 2025-10-30 A10-0211/2025 REPORT on the EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 (EMPL)
  • 2024-03-25 A9-0157/2024 REPORT on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2012/29/EU establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of crime, and replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA (FEMM, LIBE)

Opinions as shadow rapporteur

Most recent 5 of 11.

  • 2026-05-11 EMPL_AD(2026)784382 OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on establishing the Erasmus+ programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/817 and (EU) 2021/888 (EMPL)
  • 2025-11-06 LIBE_AD(2025)776885 OPINION on the implementation of the rule of law conditionality regime (LIBE)
  • 2025-07-17 LIBE_AD(2025)773201 OPINION on EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 (LIBE)
  • 2025-05-14 EMPL_AD(2025)770275 OPINION on the role of cohesion policy in supporting the just transition (EMPL)
  • 2025-04-09 LIBE_AD(2025)769925 OPINION on a revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (LIBE)

Amendments by procedure

Procedures with the most amendments Konstantinos ARVANITIS has tabled as author or co-author in the 10th term. Amendments are counted per procedure reference.

  • 2025/2057(INI): 127 amendments, latest 2025-05-28 (EMPL)
    EP document title: REPORT on the EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024
  • 2025/0222(COD): 123 amendments, latest 2026-03-04 (EMPL)
    EP document title: BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Erasmus+ programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/817 and (EU) 2021/888
  • 2025/0241(COD): 117 amendments, latest 2026-07-14 (AGRI)
    EP document title: OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034
  • 2025/2239(INI): 74 amendments, latest 2025-12-15 (LIBE)
    EP document title: REPORT on the Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report
  • 2023/0404(COD): 69 amendments, latest 2024-12-18 (EMPL)
    EP document title: REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing an EU talent pool

Questions, motions and explanations of vote

Records as published on the European Parliament website, including co-signed texts. Each list says how far its records reach.

Written questions

Most recent 20 of 82. Records up to 2026-09-09.

  • 2026-07-03 Illegal implementation of the cable car construction project on the archaeological site of Monemvasia without a building permit and funded by the RRF (E-10-2026-002779)
  • 2026-06-15 Ensuring tripartite governance and meaningful participation on the EU-OSHA Management Board (E-10-2026-002450)
  • 2026-06-12 Misuse of EU funds in Athens’ Prosfygika district: partnership principle violations and fundamental rights concerns (E-10-2026-002432)
  • 2026-05-18 Need to recognise cancers as occupational diseases of firefighters in the European Union (E-10-2026-002032)
  • 2026-05-11 Adequacy and effectiveness of monitoring horsepower (kW) and tonnage (GT) under Regulation (EU) No 1380/2013 (E-10-2026-001925)
  • 2026-05-05 Commission meeting with Taliban on deportations of Afghans (E-10-2026-001828)
  • 2026-04-30 Exhausting on-call shifts in Greek National Health Service hospitals (E-10-2026-001778)
  • 2026-04-22 Need to strengthen controls and ensure reciprocity of standards on imports of processed fruit, vegetables and tomato products from non-EU countries (E-10-2026-001662)
  • 2026-04-20 Extraordinary attacks on the European Public Prosecutor's Office (E-10-2026-001599)
  • 2026-04-16 The use of Afghan paramilitaries by the Greek authorities for pushbacks (E-10-2026-001563)
  • 2026-04-15 Unofficial migrant mercenaries used by the Greek authorities in mass pushback operations (E-10-2026-001523)
  • 2026-04-09 PDO feta undermined through non-EU trade agreements tolerated by the EU (E-10-2026-001453)
  • 2026-04-09 Escalation of violence against the Christian minority in Syria and urgent need for action by the European Union (E-10-2026-001455)
  • 2026-04-07 Preliminary audit report on the implementation of training, employment and work reintegration programmes in Greece (E-10-2026-001381)
  • 2026-03-31 Israel: death penalty and racial discrimination (E-10-2026-001333)
  • 2026-03-22 Outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Lesbos and the need for immediate European assistance (E-10-2026-001184)
  • 2026-03-16 Risk of rising food prices due to energy instability (E-10-2026-001076)
  • 2026-02-24 Adulteration of honey, low-cost imports and the impact of the EU-Mercosur agreement (E-10-2026-000760)
  • 2026-02-18 Mediterranean fisheries invaded by non-native species (E-10-2026-000686)
  • 2026-02-16 Ensuring predictability, fair distribution and transparency in the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2028-2034 in light of the opinion issued by the European Court of Auditors (E-10-2026-000658)

Questions for oral answer

All 8, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-07.

  • 2026-09-07 Climate change, public health and the world of work: for a directive on maximum working temperatures (O-10-2026-000035)
  • 2026-03-09 Public procurement and deaths at work: choosing the best bidder in social terms and making social rights and safety at work a condition for access to contracts (O-10-2026-000011)
  • 2026-01-28 Addressing the gender health gap in the new research and innovation programme (FP10) (O-10-2026-000004)
  • 2025-09-22 US blockade against Cuba and the country’s inclusion on the US list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism (O-10-2025-000032)
  • 2025-09-22 US blockade against Cuba and the country’s inclusion on the US list of so-called state sponsors of terrorism (O-10-2025-000033)
  • 2025-05-28 EU-Israel Association Agreement (O-10-2025-000019)
  • 2025-02-18 Cuba on the so-called ‘list of state sponsors of terrorism’ (O-10-2025-000006)
  • 2025-02-18 Cuba on the so-called ‘list of state sponsors of terrorism’ (O-10-2025-000007)

Motions for resolutions

All 9, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-11.

  • 2026-07-01 PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION requesting the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations to verify whether Europe of Sovereign Nations Party complies with the conditions laid down in Article 3(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445 (B-10-2026-0338)
  • 2026-06-12 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (B-10-2026-0289)
  • 2026-05-13 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (B-10-2026-0245)
  • 2026-02-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on World Cancer Day (B-10-2026-0126)
  • 2026-01-20 JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania
  • 2026-01-19 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the attempted takeover of Lithuania’s public broadcaster and the threat to democracy in Lithuania (B-10-2026-0074)
  • 2026-01-14 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION seeking an opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Partnership Agreement between the European Union and its Member States, of the one part, and the Common Market of the South, the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, of the other part, and the proposed Interim Agreement on Trade between the European Union, of the one part, and the Common Market (B-10-2026-0060)
  • 2025-11-05 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION seeking an opinion from the Court of Justice on the compatibility with the Treaties of the proposed Agreement on Digital Trade between the European Union and the Republic of Singapore (B-10-2025-0479)
  • 2025-09-15 MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION (B-10-2025-0402)

Individual motions for resolutions

All 1, most recent first. Records up to 2026-06-11.

  • 2026-05-19 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on holding Israel to account for breaches of human rights and international law (B-10-2026-0267)

Written explanations of vote

All 1, in alphabetical order. The EP lists explanations of vote without dates.

  • 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye

Comparison with group and country means

Counts of Konstantinos ARVANITIS set against the mean of all Members of the EP, of the The Left in the European Parliament group and of the Members from Greece. The word in brackets says whether the count is higher than, lower than or equal to that mean.

ActivityCountEP meanGUE/NGL meanGreece mean
Amendments1031811.1 (higher)769.3 (higher)641.9 (higher)
Speeches5644.4 (higher)52.8 (higher)41.2 (higher)
Reports (Rapporteur)10.8 (higher)0.5 (higher)0.6 (higher)
Reports (Shadow)43.8 (higher)8.3 (lower)3.5 (higher)
Questions9039.7 (higher)89.4 (higher)82.1 (higher)
Motions919.6 (lower)11.2 (lower)20.1 (lower)
Opinions (Rapporteur)00.6 (lower)0.3 (lower)0.1 (lower)
Opinions (Shadow)112.7 (higher)5.2 (higher)2.4 (higher)
Explanations of Vote143.0 (lower)93.4 (lower)17.1 (lower)
Vote Participation76.6%86.3% (lower)83.0% (lower)81.6% (lower)

Means are taken over all tracked Members of the 10th term, former Members included. Counts are raw and not adjusted for mandate length.