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MONDAY The government is scheduled to table the 2012 draft budget in Parliament. The inspection team of the European Commission, the European Central bank and the International Monetary Fund, known as the troika, starts its final round of monitoring in Athens before drafting its report on Greece’s fiscal progress. European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule will be the keynote speaker at a lecture on “European Union Enlargement: The European Agenda as Leverage for Reforms,” organized by the Representation of the European Commission in Athens and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). The lecture will take place at the Commission’s offices in Athens (2 Vas. Sofias), starting at 12.15 p.m. Independence Day in Cyprus, a national holiday. TUESDAY On the occasion of the 1st Greek Investment Forum in New York, the president of the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce, Yiannos Grammatidis, and the president of the Athens stock market, Sokratis Lazaridis, will hold a briefing at noon in the Hermes room of the Athens Stock Exchange building (110 Athinon). The International Association of IT Lawyers will launch the 3rd International Conference on Private Law at the Coral Hotel (35 Poseidonos, Palaio Faliro, Athens). To Thursday. (Info: lspi.net) The 3rd International Audit Conference, titled “A Big Audit Plan for the Crisis,” will take place at the OTEAcademy amphitheater (1 Spartis & Pelika, Maroussi, Athens). (Info: 210.661.7777, gini@boussias.com) WEDNESDAY The 3rd International Symposium on Green Chemistry for Environment, Health and Development (GreenChem 2012) begins at the Skiathos Palace Hotel on the island of Skiathos. To Friday. (Info: www.greenchem3.prd.uth.gr) THURSDAY Public Power Corporation (PPC) will hold an extraordinary general meeting. An open discussion titled “Toward a Financially Sustainable and Socially Fair Social Security System” and organized by ELIAMEP, Kantor SA, the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), Transparency International and Megaron Plus, will take place in the Athens Concert Hall’s Dimitris Mitropoulos Room (Vas. Sofias & Kokkali). Keynote speakers will include former OTE head Panagis Vourloumis. Starts at 7 p.m. (Info: 210.725.7124, www.eliamep.gr) The 6th International Electrotec & Lighting Salon exhibition opens at the Metropolitan Expo exhibition center, next to Athens International Airport. To Sunday. (Info: www.electrotec.gr) FRIDAY The 5th international Building Green Expo (www.buildinggreenexpo.gr) opens at the MEC Expo Center in Paiania. To Sunday. It will run in parallel with the 7th Sun & Shadow Expo (sunandshadowexpo.gr) at the same venue. In the context of the above exhibitions, the Center for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES) is organizing a one-day event titled ”House Energy Renovation” according to the European project for “Renovation Through Quality Supply Chains and Energy Performance Certification Standards (REQUEST),” at the MEC Expo Center in Paiania. (Info: 210.660.325, www.cres.gr) The 16th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics opens at the University of Piraeus. To Sunday. (Info: pci2012.unipi.gr) SATURDAY The 1st International Conference for the Greek Passive House and Building Directives will be held in the Conference Room of the Building Green Expo at the MEC Expo Center in Paiania. |