This Week
MONDAY The Panhellenic Federation of Teaching and Scientific Personnel (POSDEP) meets to decide future strike action. Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis to meet with Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). At noon she will meet with the foreign minister of Montenegro, Milan Rocen, who is on a visit in Athens. Transport Minister Michalis Liapis speaks at an event hosted by SOLIDARITY, a non-governmental organization associated with the Church of Greece, at Nerantziotissa metro station. The Municipality of Thessaloniki holds a conference on «The Participation and the Role of Teachers in Drug Prevention,» at 10.30 a.m. at the Grand Hotel Palace in Thessaloniki. Metropolitan Bishop Varnavas of Neapolis and Stavroupolis will speak. For details, call 2310.277.945 or log on to www.thessalonikicity.gr. The Athens Bar Association hosts a conference on the protection of human rights in Europe, at 7 p.m. (60 Academias). EU Ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros will attend. For details, call 210.339.8271 or log on to www.dsa.gr. The Center of Political Research and Communication holds a conference on «Political Domination in the Era of Pragmatism,» at 6 p.m. at the King George Palace Hotel in Syntagma. President of the Athens Bar Association Dimitrios Paxinos will speak. For details, call 210.729.1647 or log on to www.kpee.gr. TUESDAY The Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki hosts a scientific conference on «Sigmund Freud: The Man and his Work,» at 9.30 a.m. at its premises. Call 2310.647.105 or log on to www.psychothes.gr for details. Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis inaugurates the ministry’s exhibition on «Diplomatic Documents, Photos and Cinema Archives,» at noon. The exhibition will run through the end of January. The European Commission’s representative office in Greece presents the results of the latest Eurobarometer research for Greece at 11.30 a.m. at 2 Vassilissis Sofias. For details, call 210.727.2109. Members of the Panhellenic Coordinating Committee on Drugs plan to protest in front of the Health Ministry at 5 p.m. The protest is aimed at drawing attention to what campaigners claim is the government’s failed anti-drug policy. WEDNESDAY Panteion University and the Center of Mediterranean and Middle East Studies hold a round-table discussion on «50 years after the Suez Crisis: Assessments and Lessons Learned,» at 6 p.m. at the Institute of International Relations (IDIS) in Plaka. Call 210.331.2325-7 for details. THURSDAY The Central Union of Greek Municipalities (KEDKE) meets to discuss the Interior Ministry’s draft presidential decree on local governance.
