The "New Powers" party, which supports New Democracy, won the elections for a new board of the Federation of Greek Communities in Germany (OEK), held at the end of the sessions of the 21st congress.

"Our loyalty is a response to their crisis" was the slogan of the 21st congress of the Federation of Greek Communities in Germany (OEK), held at the headquarters of the German Trade Unions DGB, in Frankfurt, with emphasis on the repercussions of the economic crisis and topics related to Greek language education.

A campaign to assist Northern Epirot schools by the Northern Epirot Youth Group has wound up successfully. A team headed by its president, Christos Giorgakis, made a 2-day tour of schools in the region, handing over the equipment they had collected.

Greeks - and quite a few of them - live at the very lowest corner of the world, near the Antarctic, in Punta Arenas, Chile, where they have decided to found the most distant Greek community from the homeland. It is located over 15,000 kms from Athens.

Cypriot events will be highlighted in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in late June and early July, which will be incorporated into the 8th International Congress of Greek Researches, to be organised by the Modern Greek department of Flinders University.