Nikos Xydakis has written for several nationwide Greek newspapers and magazines and was awarded the Greek Parliament’s Botsis Award for the Journalist of the Year in 2009. He was editor-in-chief of the daily Kathimerini from 2003 to 2015 before being elected to the Greek Parliament as a Syriza deputy. The Syriza government appointed him Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs and later Parliamentary Representative of Syriza’s parliamentary group. He is a member of the Parliament’s Committee of Foreign Affairs and National Defence and the Committee of European Affairs.