He left life at the age of 91
At the age of 91, Constantine Pilarinos died, who was a Member of State of State New DemocracyPrefect of Messinia and Thessaloniki, as well as president of the Union of Greek MPs and MEPs. Also, Constantine Pilarinos was the founder and first president of the Macedonian News Agency.
Short resume from the RES-EIA archive
He was born in Thessaloniki in 1935 and studied sciences, law, economics, European economic law at the Universities of Athens and Paris
In 1956, at the age of 21, he was selected by then Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis and served for seven consecutive years as a member of his political office.
In 1967, under the Government of Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, he was a consultant to the Ministry of Presidency.
During the April dictatorship (1967-1974) he was a founding member and secretary general of the National Radical Union (ERE).
For many years he worked as an investment and business organization consultant.
From 1974-1979, he served as Prefect of Messinia and Thessaloniki.
He has also served as Secretary General and Chairman of the “Sociological Society of Young Scientists”, Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the “European Youth Movement”, a member of the Board of Directors of the “European Union of Human Rights and the Citizen” and a member of the Association of Editors of the Athenian Editors.
He was a founding member of the National Ecological Society, the Association of Music Friends of Thessaloniki (whose president was president) and the Thessaloniki Music Organization.
During the period 1980-1987, he was Secretary General of the “Radical Movement”, which he himself founded.
In 1989, he served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Technology in the Government of Tzannetakis. In the same year, after the assassination of Paul Bakoyannis, a spokesman for the New Democracy took over.
On May 4, 1990, he was sworn in with the Secretary -General of Press and Information during his tenure at the GGT, he founded the Macedonian News Agency (EIA) based in Thessaloniki and instituted three European awards for the EIA (Eumenes, Grand) journalism.
He also promoted the link between ERT and Rick (Greece-Cyprus) television networks for the mutual broadcast of their programs and instituted the first state film under Law 1892/91.
On December 10, 1991, he assumed the Secretary General of the Hellenic Tourism Organization (EOT).
During the 12 -month term at the EOT, he proposed, among other things, the establishment and worked for the creation of the European Institute of Tourism based in Athens, as well as the Tourism Information Bank with an On -Line connection system for all domestic and external services and all the businesses in the tourism sector.
In 1992, he carried out a worldwide campaign for the promotion of Macedonia.
He introduced the funding of the EOT of a Greek project annually (in the opera, dance and music sectors), with Theodorakis’ “Opera Medea” that went up to Herodion in the summer of 1993.
On October 30, 1992, he was held General Manager of the ND, a position he remained until November 1993, when he resigned after Miltiades Everett’s election to the party leadership.
From the position of ND General Manager, he proposed and presented the school’s school, the Political Library and the Secretariats of Culture, Education and Quality of Life.
In the elections of October 10, 1993, he was elected MP of State for the first time with the ND ballot.
In May 1999, he took over as Director of the Ecclesiastical Central Office of Finance (EKO) of the Church of Greece (a position he maintained until February 2008), while at the same time being elected a member of the National Bank Board of Directors, whose church is a large shareholder.
In May 2005, he was elected president of the Union of MEPs and MEPs.
He has been honored with the Golden Cross of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
He has written many monographs and articles with the best known, the trademark of his London session in 1971, “Double European Parliament”, for which he was honored with the “Robert Suman” award.