German Eurodeputy and president of German-Hellenic Economic Association (DHW) George Hatzimarkakis has sent a letter of congratulations – on behalf of the DHW - to the President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, on his re-election yesterday to the presidential post.
Brussels - New Democracy Eurodeputy G. Papanikolaou has submitted a question to the European Commission about Athanasios Lerounis, a Greek volunteer teacher abducted in Pakistan.
This year’s “Windows on Europe Film 2010”European Film Festival in Australia organized by the Euroepan Unions Delegation in Canberra in cooperation with embassies and EU member-state diplomatic delegations in Australia will include participations from Greece and Cyprus.
The conferences of the major Cypriot organizations of Australia will be held during the last week-end of May (May 28-30).The President of the federation of Cypriot Communities in Australia and New Zealand, Mihali Christodoulou, announced that during the aforementioned dates, the conferences to be held will be the Pan-Australian Coordinating Committee for the Cyprus Struggle and the Federation of the Cyprus Youth, that will be held in Adelaide May 28-30.
The omogeneia of New South Wales is organizing a special event on Sunday February 21st to assist the quake victims of Haiti that will be held at the headquarters of the Cypriot community in Stanmore.The event is being organized by the Greek Emergency Fund created by the Council for Hellenes Abroad (SAE) Oceania, the Cypriot community and the manager of the Cypriot restaurant, Mr. Dimakis.
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Droutsas-Clinton meeting
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Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas met in Washington yesterday with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying after their meeting that he had expounded on Greece's positions on major national issues as well as Greece's will to help, through initiatives in its greater region and especially in the Balkans and the Middle East as well.
Vancouver - A modern-day “Odysseas” is travelling throughout the work to teach the Greek language through the Internet – even to Chinese – with the Modern Greek Studies department at Canada’s Simon Fraser University as its starting point. The department has been functioning since 1996 at one of North America’s largest universities.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Monday leaders of divided Cyprus must make more effort if a peace deal is to be successfully concluded and that both had pledged to work on a deal as soon as possible. The United Nations has been trying inconclusively for years to end decades of conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots which has impeded Turkey's ambition to join the European Union, Where Greek Cypriots represent Cyprus in the bloc.
In the latest issue of financial magazine “BRW” Greek-Australian make-up artist extraordinaire, Napoleon Perdis ranks 22nd in the list of 100 wealthiest Australians under the age of 40, with a personal fortune estimated at 85 million dollars. His aim, as he says, is to be a billionaire.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was made an honorary professor of the Kalamata Technological Educational Institute (TEI) on Monday, while on Sunday afternoon he was declared an Honorary Citizen of Kalamata.