Agenda
Thursday Hellenic Railways Organization staff stage a 24-hour strike protesting the company’s plan to become a holding company. High school teachers to stage a demonstration over pay at noon outside the Education Ministry. Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis visits Thessaloniki. Alternate Culture Minister Fanni Palli-Petralia visits Volos. Contract employees at Olympic Airlines stage a 24-hour strike demanding permanency. At 12.30 p.m. they will march to the Transport Ministry. Labor Minister Panos Panayiotopoulos to chair meeting of National Employment Committee. Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis to meet with the Cypriot Parliament speaker, Dimitris Christofias, in Athens. Public discussion on the relations between journalists and the state, organized by Minister of State Theodoros Roussopoulos, resumes at Zappeion Hall. Friday Labor Center of Thessaloniki, in cooperation with GSEE-ADEDY Labor Institute, hold a conference on the European Constitution, at the Philippeio Hotel in Thessaloniki, 32 Aristotelous. Tel. 2310.235440. To Saturday. Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas to attend Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation Euro-Med TDS general meeting. To Saturday. Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras visits Istanbul. He will meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios. Deputy Agriculture Minister Alexandros Kontos visits Thessaloniki to attend a conference on «Organic Livestock Farming and Agriculture.» Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBETH) hosts a conference on «Participation in Foreign Exhibitions: The Key to the Promotion of Greek Exports,» to be held at the EBETH conference hall at 6 p.m. Tel. 2310.370.132. Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EBEA), in cooperation with the Greek Embassy in Sofia, hosts conference on «Major Technical Projects in Bulgaria,» at EBEA, 7 Academias, at 11 a.m. Tel. 210.338.2256. Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to meet with Agriculture Minister Evangelos Bassiakos. Environment Minister Giorgos Souflias to visit Thessaloniki. Saturday PASOK leader George Papandreou to visit Crete. To Sunday. Sunday Unveiling of the statue of late statesman George Papandreou at noon in Aegaleo.
