Δευτέρα 11 Απριλίου 2011

PM’s Snap Visit to Poland

PM’s Snap Visit to Poland

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PM’s Snap Visit to Poland

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:48 AM PDT


Prime Minister George Papandreou visited Poland on April 7 for talks with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk and the country's President Bronislaw Komorowski, in view of the Polish presidency of the EU, during the second term of 2011.

The two Premiers discussed the priorities of the Polish Presidency, especially in what concerns the Common Agricultural Policy, migration, as well as developments in the Middle East. Papandreou also made a special reference to his great-grand father's Polish origins and the flourishing Polish community in Greece. 

Parliament Int’l Relations

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:48 AM PDT



The Conference focused on the role of Parliaments in European economic governance and the European semester and issues of communication strategies for parliamentary chambers.

Participating in a discussion on The Financial Crisis and the European Semester, Petsalnikos stressed the need for democratic transparency and called for closer cooperation between national parliaments and the European Parliament.

He further emphasized that national parliaments should be briefed in detail before budgets are approved by Community agencies, thus avoiding surprise decisions and ensuring effective participation.

On April 6, Petsalnikos visited Berlin where he held talks with his counterpart, German Parliament President Norbert Lammert and was also received by the President of the Republic Christian Wulff. He also met with members of the Greek-German Friendship Group - a delegation of which will be visiting Greece on May 16-20 - and attended the German Federal Parliament's plenum session.

Conference of the Speakers of the EU Parliaments: Programme of the Brussels Conference; Hellenic Parliament: Speech of the Parliament President at the Conference (in Greek)

Invest in Greece Conference

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:48 AM PDT


The 11th International Venture Capital & Private Equity Forum, a leading event in Venture Capital & Private Equity in South-eastern Europe, took place in Athens on April 5 and 6, co-organized by the Invest in Greece agency, the Hellenic Venture Capital Association and the PRAXI/HELP-FORWARD Network, coordinator of the Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas.

Businesspeople, researchers, policy makers and Venture Capital & Private Equity firms attended the event, which was addressed by Finance minister George Papaconstantinou, Interior, Decentralisation and E-governance minister Yannis Ragoussis and Environment, Energy and Climate Change minister, Tina Birbili.

Invest in Greece chairman Aris Syngros expressed the government's intention to extend the 'fast-track' procedure to all investments in Greece and not just to strategic ones.

All Major Ports in One Place

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:48 AM PDT


An international trade show and symposium bringing together the largest global cargo terminals and presenting infrastructure and investment opportunities will take place in Athens on April 13-15.

The event, titled Ports and Hubs, will feature development plans, trans-shipment of containers, and transporting containers presented by the biggest commercial ports of the world.

Industry experts and officials, including Minister of Maritime Affairs, Fisheries and Islands Yannis Diamantidis, will be keynote speakers in the parallel symposium, titled East Mediterranean an Black Sea Ports: Trans-shipment Hubs Connecting Sea and Land in the Freight Supply Chain. Participants include ports authorities, terminal operators, shipping companies, global cargo owners, investors and renowned economists.

Ports & Hubs Trade Show and Symposium: Programme 

Health, Nutrition & Fitness: From Ancient to Modern Times

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT



The series opened on March 14 with a lecture titled Farming, Feasting and the Foundations of the Early Greek City: Recent excavations at the site of Azoria, Crete by the Professor Donald Haggis and a dinner celebrating the historic food routes of Crete, Ancient Flavors- Modern Palates coordinated by Nikki Rose, founder of Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries (CSS).

Donald Haggis is Professor of Classical Archaeology and director of the Azoria Project, an important excavation project which traces the growth of the Azoria settlement from the Bronze Age until its establishment as a regional center in the Early Iron Age.

In the framework of the newly launched series, a variety of other events are being scheduled to take place in the coming months.

Greek News Agenda: The Azoria Project & Exploring Crete's Culinary Heritage [Photo1: Pr. Donald Haggis at Azoria, Photo2: Pithos from an archaic house at Azoria after conservation]

The "Luminous Interval" @ Guggenheim

Posted: 11 Apr 2011 12:49 AM PDT


The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum will host an exhibition with works from the collection of Hellenic Federation of Enterprises Chairman Dimitris Daskalopoulos, one of the most important private collections of contemporary art.

The exhibition, titled The Luminous Interval: The D.Daskalopoulos Collection, features works by more than 30 renowned contemporary artists dating mainly from the 1980s and 1990s, covering the most salient artistic movements of these decades.

The collection includes works by eminent artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley and Martin Kippenberger, as well as younger artists like Paul Chan and Alexandros Psychoulis.

The exhibition draws its title from Nikos Kazantzakis' philosophic work Salvatores Dei (The Saviours of God) that describes life as the luminous interval between abysses. It will be on display from April 12 to September 11.

[Photo1: Paul McCarthy, Tomato Head (Burgundy), 1994,  Photo2: Robert Cober, Untitled, 1991, D. Daskalopoulos Collection]
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