Agenda
Thursday Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis visits USA. He is due to meet with his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Left Coalition Synaspismos President Alekos Alavanos to visit landfill in Ano Liosia. Police, coast guard and fire brigade unions meet to discuss strike action over institutional and financial demands. State Minister Theodoros Roussopoulos to meet with representatives of the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists’ Union (POESY). FRIDAY Greece’s Independence Day, a public holiday. Deputy Interior Minister Apostolos Andreoulakos visits Fokida prefecture. Deputy Finance Minister Christos Folias visits Kozani prefecture to attend celebrations commemorating Independence Day. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos starts a three-day tour of western Macedonia, during which he is to attend the seventh meeting of local authorities to be held at the Achilleion Hotel in Grevena prefecture. Saturday Dodecanese Development Enterprise (DETAP) in cooperation with Dodecanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry hold an international tourism forum on «Trends and Innovation in the Tourism Industry,» at the Rodos Palace Hotel. Tel. 22410.442.80/81/82 or log on to www.ebed.gr. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos visits Kozani prefecture to inaugurate the new building of the regional authority of Western Macedonia. Deputy Interior Minister Apostolos Andreoulakos to inaugurate Citizens’ Service Center (KEP) in Galaxidi. Sunday Clocks to be set forward one hour, from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m., as official summer time begins. Benaki Museum hosts a series of poetry events. Agriculture Minister Savvas Tsitouridis and PASOK MP Maria Damanaki to attend. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos to meet with prefects of western Macedonia.
