This Week
Monday Piraeus port workers stage a 24-hour strike opposing EU directive regarding the deregulation of ports. US Embassy and consulates in Athens and Thessaloniki are closed in observance of Martin Luther King’s birthday. Best athletes of the year are honored at a ceremony hosted by the Thessaloniki Municipality at 7.30 p.m. at the Ioannis Vellidis conference center. Panteion University hosts a conference on «Europe After the European Council in Brussels,» at 6.30 p.m. at the amphitheater of the Foreign Ministry. Education Minister Marietta Giannakou will speak. Tel. 210.331.2325-7 or log on to www.idis.gr. Communist party President Aleka Papariga visits Ioannina prefecture. Tuesday Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis chairs a meeting of the New Democracy party’s parliamentary group. Wednesday Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis begins official visit to China. Kritiki Publications and the Minority Groups Research Center (KEMO) present the KEMO book titled «Greece of Migration: Social Participation, Rights and Citizenship» at 7 p.m. at the Foreign Ministry. Athens Mayor Dora Bakoyannis and PASOK MP Theodoros Pangalos will speak. Tel. 210.346.9302 or log on to www.kemo.gr. Sports Ministry in cooperation with the Council of Europe hosts a photo exhibition on «Sports, Tolerance and Fair Play» at the General Secretariat of Sports. Deputy Culture Minister Giorgos Orfanos will officially open the exhibition. To January 31. UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Marianna Vardinoyannis holds a press conference on the forthcoming round table discussion on «The Business Community against the Trafficking of Human Beings» at 12.30 p.m. at the NJV Athens Plaza Hotel. Saturday Civil Servants’ Union (ADEDY), the Greek Social Forum, the Genoa 2001 Initiative and the Pakistani community in Greece hold a demonstration at 3 p.m. at the Propylaia, in protest of the alleged abduction and interrogation of Pakistanis immigrants last year.
