This Week
MONDAY Foreign Minister George Papandreou attends EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg. The crisis in the Middle East will top the agenda. – Popular singers stage an open-air concert in support of the Palestinian people, at 7.00 p.m. in Aristotelous Square in Thessaloniki. – Black Sea Business Day and the 4th annual meeting of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank held at Makedonia Palace hotel in Thessaloniki, tel 0310.290 400 TUESDAY – NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson is expected in Athens for talks with Prime Minister Costas Simitis on the nascent EU rapid reaction force. – Foreign Minister Papandreou is due to visit Israel and plans to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. – French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert and the chairman of Athens’s Urban Transport Organization hold a press conference on «Urban Transport.» At the embassy, 7 Vas. Sophias, Athens. WEDNESDAY University professors meet to decide further protest action. – The Special Supreme Court is to hear the case concerning the German State’s liability for compensation to survivors and families of victims of Nazi atrocities in Greece. – Taxi drivers stage a 24-hour strike, from 5 a.m. today until 5 a.m. Thursday. – The National Federation of Teachers’ Unions meets to decide on further protest action. – Deadline for the Greek State and former king Constantine to submit proposals to the European Court of Human Rights to determine the level of compensation for the former royal properties. THURSDAY EU competition officials arrive in Athens to examine the conditions of competition in Greece’s air transport sector. – Forty-five labor centers, including those in Athens and Thessaloniki, have called a 24-hour strike, protesting government plans for social security reform. In Athens, protesters will gather at the junction of Alexandras Avenue and Patission Street at 11 a.m. – The Car and Motor Exhibition gets underway at the Helexpo Fairgrounds in Thessaloniki. To Sunday. FRIDAY Prime Minister Simitis leads a delegation to Bucharest for a regional cooperation meeting with Romanian and Bulgarian authorities. The meeting will also address those two states’ bids to join NATO. – The Bank Employees’ Federation stages a 24-hour strike to press for the signing of a collective work agreement. SUNDAY The Athens Municipality holds a running race around Athens. Starts at 10.30 a.m. from the Panathinaic Stadium.
