This Week
Monday Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis meets with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in Berlin. PM Karamanlis to dine with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels. Economy and Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis to present Greece’s updated Stability and Development Program to be submitted to the European Commission in Brussels. Anti-racism demonstration to be held at noon at Syntagma Square. Russian Foreign Ministry coordinator for Cyprus, Leonid Abramov, in Nicosia on the second day of a three-day visit. Tourism Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos declares grand opening of National Tourism Council. Migration Policy Institute seminar on «Migration: The Positions of the Parliamentary Parties.» Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos will speak. Alternate Culture Minister Fanni Palli-Petralia, Deputy Education Minister Giorgos Kalos and Deputy Sports Minister Giorgos Orfanos hold a press conference to present the program «Open Stadiums – The Olympic Celebration Goes On.» Church of Greece’s Holy Synod convenes. To Tuesday. Representatives of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states pay a four-day visit to Athens. Extreme right-wing newspaper publisher Grigoris Michalopoulos goes on trial for alleged extortion. Tuesday PM Karamanlis to attend EU summit meeting in Brussels. To Wednesday. Federation of Civil Aviation Service Associations (OSYPA) stage a 48-hour strike. Albanian-language newspaper Tribuna holds an event marking one year since the circulation of its first edition, at the Titania Hotel. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Labor Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos, Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis and Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis will attend. Sit-down protest at Syntagma Square at 6 p.m. to commemorate the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Wednesday Education Minister Marietta Giannakou to speak at a conference on «The Significance of Assessment for Higher Education,» at the Stoa tou Vivliou, 5 Pesmazoglou. Tel. 210.722.0063. PASOK’s newly formed Political Council to meet. The Center for International and European Economic Law (CIEEL) holds a conference on «The European Union and the Environment,» to be held at CIEEL’s amphitheater in Thessaloniki. Tel. 2310.473.403. New Democracy’s Youth Group (ONNED) holds a public discussion on «Immigrants from Europe in Greece: Coexistence, Integration and Tolerance,» at 6.30 p.m. at the National Research Foundation. Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis will speak. Thursday Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis begins visit to the United States, where he will meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Police, coast guard and fire brigade unions meet to discuss future strike action. Friday Independence Day. A public holiday. Saturday Greece plays Georgia in Tbilisi in a World Cup soccer qualifier. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos visits Kozani prefecture to inaugurate the new building of the regional authority of Western Macedonia. Sunday Clocks to be set forward one hour, from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m., as official summer time begins.
