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This Week

MONDAY Irish President Mary McAleese arrives in Athens on an official two-day visit for talks with President Costis Stephanopoulos, Prime Minister Costas Simitis and other top government officials. To Wednesday. -Conference on «Globalization and the Future of Europe,» organized by the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies ISTAME-Andreas Papandreou, is to be held on Samos. Former US President Bill Clinton, the EU’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Turkey’s economy minister, Kemal Dervis, are expected to attend. It is chaired by Foreign Minister George Papandreou. -Merchant Marine Minister Giorgos Anomeritis and Prime Minister Costas Simitis meet to examine sailors’ issues. -Social Security Foundation (IKA) doctors to hold a 24-hour strike demanding permanency for 5,500 colleagues who have been on short-term contracts for years. -Rudolph Giuliani, former mayor of New York, due in Athens. TUESDAY Prime Minister Costas Simitis and his Italian counterpart Silvio Berlusconi to inaugurate, via closed-circuit television, the submarine power cable between Greece and Italy. -UN special envoy for Cyprus Alvaro de Soto will brief the UN Security Council on the progress of the ongoing reunification talks between Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash. -The Second Euro-Mediterranean environment ministers’ conference is to be held in Athens. The meeting includes two round-table discussions on «Environmental Incorporation» and «Achievement of Cooperation.» To July 10. WEDNESDAY The European Commission presents in Brussels its plan for reforms to EU Common Agricultural Policy. THURSDAY National Economy and Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis visits Brussels for a meeting of eurozone finance ministers. To Friday. -Social Security Foundation (IKA) doctors hold another 24-hour strike. -Closing date for the submission of non-binding bids for a majority stake in Olympic Catering. -Parliament Speaker Apostolos Kaklamanis starts a three-day visit to Belgrade. He is to attend the inauguration of the newly-repaired rooms of the Yugoslav Parliament, which was damaged by NATO bombs in 1999. FRIDAY Prime Minister Costas Simitis will chair the Interministerial Committee on Agrotourism. -National Economy and Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis attends European economy and finance ministers (ECOFIN) meeting in Brussels. -UN envoy Alvaro de Soto arrives in Cyprus to attend the fifth round of reunification talks. -Labor and Social Security Minister Dimitris Reppas travels to Kolding, Denmark for an informal meeting of EU employment and social affairs ministers. To Saturday.

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