Miltiadis Kyrkos is Member of the European Parliament (S&D, Greece) and ViceChair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee. He also serves as a substitute for the Delegation for Relations with Israel. In the 2014 European Parliament election, he was elected one of two MEPs on the list of the newly founded political party The River. As a chemical engineer, he has been a scientific advisor in the European Parliament and was involved in developing the Greek-language programme for children from the Muslim minority in northern Greece.