Giorgos Kyrtsos

George Kyrtsos was born in Athens in June 1952. He graduated from Athens College in 1971. He studied Business Administration at the Sloan School of Management at MIT in Boston and continued his postgraduate studies on EEC matters at LSE in London. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of International Relations at LSE in 1980. He began his journalism career in the early 1980s as an associate of Yiannis Marinos at the Economic Postman. In 1983, he participated as an expert in the EEC Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in preparing Greece's first presidency of the EEC. He handled the issue of EEC enlargement towards Portugal and Spain at a technocratic level. In 1984, he began his collaboration with Aris Voudouris at "Eleftheros Typos." As the director of "Typos tis Kyriakis" (1988-2002) and "Eleftheros Typos" (1997-2002), he played a significant role in the development of partisan press and political changes in the broader center-right space. In June 2003, he launched "City Press," which was the Greek response to the free-distribution newspaper "Metro" published in Athens by the Swedish multinational of the same name. In 2008, he proceeded with the publication of the also free-distribution "Free Sunday" every weekend. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (New Democracy – EPP) since 2014.