Ioanna Babassika is a Greek

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lawyer. Since 2000, she is a member of the

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, elected in respect of Greece. She is, since 1989, legal counsellor of the Medical Rehabilitation Centre for Torture Victims, an NGO based in Athens affiliated with the

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. She was chairperson of the EU Association of

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1990-1995. She worked for the

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1988-1990. She was also President of the European Studies Association 1981-1984. She studied law at the Law School of Athens 1967-1972, attended the International School of Comparative Law in Amsterdam in 1973 and the

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in Belgium 1973-1974 (Giuseppe Mazzini promotion).

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, ''The College of Europe. Fifty years of service to Europe'', College of Europe, Bruges, 1999.

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