Career
He was elected as an Member of Parliament for the Kommunistiko Komma Elladas (Communist Party of Greece) in the Athens A constituency in 1997–2000 and represented the party in the European Parliament from 2009 till his death. He was born Bucharest, Romania in 1951. In 1968 he moved with his family to the German Democratic Republic.
He graduated from Dresden University of Technology in 1971 with a Doctorate in Computer Science.
He worked as an assistant there in the computer faculty in 1973-1978. Babis was married to Georgia and they had two children.
He died on 12 May 2014 from an aortic dissection, after major heart surgery in the intensive care unit of Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center.