Agenda
THURSDAY Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis visits Lisbon. To tomorrow. President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias will meet with the Economic and Social Committee (OKE) at 1.30 p.m. At 2.30 p.m. he will have talks with Finance Minister Giorgos Alogoskoufis. Defense Minister Evangelos Meimarakis to attend NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels. To tomorrow. President of Synaspismos Left Coalition Alekos Alavanos visits Kavala prefecture. Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Ben Slay, director of the UN Development Program Regional Center for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, will sign a five-year cooperation agreement at 2 p.m. in Athens. EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Vladimir Spidla visits Athens. At noon he and Labor Minister Vassilis Magginas will hold a joint press conference at the ministry. The Interior Ministry will host a conference titled «E-town planning» at 9 a.m. at the Athens Imperial Hotel, to be addressed by Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Tel. 210.339.3537 or log on to www.ypes.gr. State hospital workers (POEDHN) in Athens and Piraeus will hold a six-hour work stoppage, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., to press financial and social security demands. At 11.30 a.m. protesters will demonstrate outside the Health Ministry. Health employees in the region will stage a 24-hour strike. The Geography Department of Harokopeio University is hosting a conference titled «Environment and Human Safety in Southeastern Europe,» at 10 a.m. on the university’s premises. Theodoros Skylakakis, the Foreign Ministry’s secretary-general for international economic relations and development cooperation, will speak. Tel. 210.954.9164. FRIDAY Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis will address a conference titled «The Balkans as a Factor for Stability and Security in Europe,» hosted by the American think tank The Project on Ethnic Relations (PER) in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry. The Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy will hold a conference titled «Linking Environment, Development, Stability and Security,» in cooperation with the Hellenic Society for the protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage, at 9 a.m. at the Electra Palace Hotel. For details, log on to www.eliamep.gr.
