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- Frontex to Stay in Greece in 2011
- US Assistant State Secretary in Athens
- Hybrid City Symposium
- Hands On Particle Physics
- Eurovision 2011
- The Culture Agenda
- NATO Parliamentary Assembly Seminar in Athens
- Social Security Provisions for Migrants
- Athens Welcomes European Socialists Summit
- Thessaloniki: The Place to Be in March
- Milan Meets Greece
- Greece Wishes You Bon Appétit
| Frontex to Stay in Greece in 2011 Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 AM PST  European Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom announced yesterday the extension of the Frontex operation along the Greek borders with Turkey. The Commissioner said in a statement that the Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT) operation deployed by Frontex in Greece since November 2, 2010 until March 2, 2011 will continue through the immediate launch of the Poseidon joint operation. The Poseidon Land 2011 joint operation will ensure continuity in effectively controlling the Greek-Turkish border, as well as in preventing irregular immigration in the Eastern Mediterranean region. It will be a permanent operation covering the remaining period of 2011. The geographical coverage of this operation will be extended to the external land borders between Bulgaria and Turkey. EU Commission: Frontex and the RABIT operation at the Greek-Turkish border; Greek News Agenda: Special Issue: Illegal Migration in Greece  |
| US Assistant State Secretary in Athens Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 AM PST Recent developments in North Africa, and particularly Libya, was the main focus of discussion during a meeting of Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas with visiting US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon on March 2.  Briefing reporters after the meeting, Gordon praised Greece for its contribution in dealing with the Libya crisis, especially the continuing efforts for the evacuation of thousands of third-country nationals from eastern Libya. He further noted that developments in the eastern Mediterranean have increased Greece's geostrategic importance. Responding to questions on the Cyprus issue, Gordon stated that direct talks between the two communities offer the "best prospects" for progress, but noted a delay in resolving issues of property and security. In reference to negotiations with FYROM, he underlined that the Greek government is committed to improving stability in the region and called for a "win-win" resolution in the name issue.  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 AM PST  The University Research Institute of Applied Communication (URIAC) in collaboration with the New Technologies Lab of the Athens University organise a two-day international Symposium titled Hybrid City on March 4-5. The Symposium - which was preceded by a weeklong workshop on Codes of Disobedience & Dysfunctionality led by the British artist Martin Riese - aims to highlight the potential transformative shift of the urban condition, as a result of recent developments in information and communication technologies (ICTs). The Hybrid City events are held as part of the Global Gateway action and of the EU funded program Civil Society Dialogue – Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture.  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 AM PST For three weeks every March high school students across Europe can visit their local university and participate in the International Particle Physics Masterclasses.  This is the 7th consecutive year of the event that offers 6,000 students in 24 countries the opportunity to get advanced insight into research. This year students will perform measurements on real data from particle physics experiments at CERN, and join a video conference to exchange and discuss their results, as in real international research collaborations. More than 500 students will attend the classes in the Greek participating institutes in Athens, Thessaloniki and Crete. Classes begin on March 9 and continue to March 17.  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 AM PST  Watch my dance by Loukas Yiorkas and Stereo Mike is Greece's entry for the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest, which will be held on May in Düsseldorf, Germany. The song was selected yesterday, among five candidacies in total, at a live show hosted by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT).  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2011 02:38 AM PST E X H I B I T I O N S
 The George Economou Collection is on display for the first time at the new City of Athens Municipal Gallery – a neoclassical building of a former silk factory, in the Metaxourgio district, designed by Danish architect Hans Christian Hansen (1803-1883). The collection's strong point lies on the range, broadness and diversity of modern paintings, drawings and sculptures. A range of educational activities will be provided free-of-charge during the course of the exhibition.
 The Municipal Map Library of the city of Kozani celebrates Carnival with an exhibition of caricatural and satirical maps, titled Caricatural Maps of the World and of History. The exhibition covers seven centuries of satirical cartography and will be on display until March 6. L E C T U R E
Dr Dimitri Nanopoulos, a Distinguished Professor of Physics and holder of the Mitchell/Heep Chair in High Energy Physics at Texas A&M University, will give a lecture on Multiverse and LHC. The CERN Experiment, at the new Onassis Cultural Centre, in Athens, on March 9.  M U S I C Opera @ Megaron The Athens Concert Hall is inaugurating its collaboration with the famous Teatro alla Scala in Milan with the production of Donizetti's opera Maria Stuarda. The performance will be staged on March 10, 12, 14, 16, & 18 and will be accompanied by the exhibition Maria Callas and La Scala.
The internationally famous composer, song writer and singer, Salvatore Adamo, is appearing at the Athens Concert Hall on March 8, in an evening dedicated to women, on the occasion of the International Woman's Day.  |
| NATO Parliamentary Assembly Seminar in Athens Posted: 02 Mar 2011 04:39 AM PST  The NATO Parliamentary Assembly Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group in collaboration with the Hellenic Parliament organised a two-day seminar titled Political unrest, economic uncertainty and security in the Mediterranean yesterday in Athens.  Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament Philippos Petsalnikos gave the opening speech, stressing Greece's key role as a stabilising factor in the region of Mediterranean. Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas also addressed the seminar focusing on Greece's view of the political instability in the Southern Mediterranean region and the consequences for Europe. The President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Karl Lamers called on the Assembly to develop a new approach to the region and, in this context, the Athens Seminar of the Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group is expected to develop the modalities for this new relationship.    |
| Social Security Provisions for Migrants Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:02 AM PST  Legal migrants working in Greece will need fewer social security stamps – 120 instead of 200 currently - to renew their residence permits and gain access to state healthcare, according to a decision announced on February 28, by Alternate Labour and Social Security Minister, Yiorgos Koutroumanis. The measure was examined as a way to ease the burden on many legal migrants, who have been working in Greece for many years and may not be able to secure the number of stamps needed to extend their permits because of the economic crisis. The changes will be included in a draft bill to be submitted in Parliament soon, which would enable a crackdown on clandestine employment. Ministry of Labour and Social Security: Press Release (in Greek)   |
| Athens Welcomes European Socialists Summit Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:02 AM PST  The European Socialists Party will hold a summit in Athens on March 4&5. The summit is set to prepare the issues for the crucial EU summit of March 24-25. The agenda of the meeting includes the controversial competitiveness pact among euro zone countries, recently tabled by France and Germany. European Socialists Party President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen along with Greek Prime Minister and Socialist International President George Papandreou will host the event.   |
| Thessaloniki: The Place to Be in March Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:02 AM PST
The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is holding its 13th session in the Festival's premises at the city's port, from March 11 to 20.  This year's event hosts a Spotlight on Middle East documentary films, focusing mainly on recent productions and showcasing perspectives on political and social issues of the region -both by insiders and outsiders. It also features retrospective tributes to Ukrainian documentary director Sergei Loznitsa (who will be a guest at the festival) and Czech film-maker Helena Trestikova. Paying tribute to the Athens 2011 Special Olympics, the Festival presents the How I Am: Challenging Perceptions programme, featuring thirty documentaries on mental disability, focusing both on the problems, as well as the optimism, strength and humour of disabled people and those around them.
The Thessaloniki International Wine Competition has reached its 11th year and will be held at the HELEXPO Trade Centre of the city on March 8-10.  Oenologists, sommeliers and journalists, including international wine whizzes such as Tom Stevenson, Stephen Spurrier, Steven Daniel and Roger Dagorn, will judge local and foreign production and prize the best at the award ceremony that will take place on March 12. But the public will also have the chance to taste the best of the competition, as the award winning wines will be served at a tasting event that will take place after the awards ceremony. The competition is organised by the Wine Producers of Northern Greece, in the context of the 3rd OENOS International Wine Fair, under the auspices of the International Organization of Vine and Wine and the Municipality of Thessaloniki.   |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:09 AM PST  For the fourth year in a row, Milan meets Greece – the Greek arts festival of Milan – brings performing arts, exhibitions, lectures and an array of parallel events to the northern Italian city from March 8 to 13. Milano Incontra la Grecia is an effort to bring "concise but also high-caliber" representation of contemporary Greek culture, outside touristic stereotypes or the confines of its historical heritage. This year's session features Greek National Theatre's production of M.A.R.I.L.U., avant-guard Theodore Terzopoulos' Desert, and an abstract choreography on Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The festival concludes with collaboration between the acclaimed Italian-Jewish performer Moni Ovadia and soloists from the Mediterranean ethnic orchestra Estudiantina. The legendary Piccolo Teatro di Milano and Spazio Oberdan multispace will host the events.   |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:09 AM PST  The 1st Greek Gastronomy Festival started in Paris on March 1 and will continue through to the end of the month. Visitors will have the opportunity to taste Greek products as well as recipes created by Greek chefs. The recipes will also be incorporated in the menus of restaurants of the city that participate in the Greek gastronomy month. They will also feature in two UNESCO restaurants for one week dedicated to Greek cuisine. The Greek gastronomy month will culminate in the last week of the month in the wagons of the superspeed iDTGV trains.  Passengers to four major destinations (Lyon, Bordeaux, Lille and Marseilles) will receive material regarding Greek products and cuisine and taste some of the recipes featured in the festival. The festival is an initiative of the France GNTO office, held with the participation of local authorities of four regions (Corfu, Crete, Rhodes and Halkidiki, that will present their local products and rich culinary heritage to the French capital.  |
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