Georgios Souflias

Georgios Souflias (; 7 July 1941 – 5 June 2026) was a Greek politician. He was a member of the New Democracy political party and was Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works for the duration of the Karamanlis administration.

Life and career Born in Farsala, Larissa Prefecture, Thessaly to a family of Sarakatsani, he graduated in civil engineering from the National Technical University of Athens He was Deputy Minister for Interior Affairs from November 1977 to May 1980 and Deputy Minister for Coordination from May 1980 to September 1981. From July 1989 to October 1989, he was Minister for the National Economy, and from November 1989 to February 1990, he was Minister for Finance. He served as Minister for the National Economy again from April 1990 to October 1990; he was also Minister for Tourism from April 1990 to May 1990, and from January 1991 to October 1993 he was Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs. He did not run in the 2000 parliamentary election. On the first day of the party's 5th Congress, 30 March 2001, Karamanlis publicly invited Souflias to return to the party, describing the decision to expel him as "painful" and saying that it was made at a "politically charged time". Souflias returned on the last day of the congress, 1 April.

Souflias subsequently became policy planning director of New Democracy while it was in opposition. He was injured, along with his wife, in a car crash on 29 November 2003, and two of his ribs were broken. He was released from hospital on 24 December.

He was elected in the 2004 parliamentary election as a deputy at large for New Democracy. Following this election he became Minister for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works in the government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis on 10 March 2004.