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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Ecumenical Patriarch in Kalamata
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Bartholomew, who is known as the "Green Patriarch" for his environmental initiatives, was made a professor of the TEI's department of Organic and Greenhouse Crops and Floriculture during a ceremony at the TEI's amphitheater during an international environmental symposium on the theme "Protection of the Environment as a source of true life and sustainable development". The ceremony was attended by deputy foreign minister Spyros Kouvelis, Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, the political and military leaders of Messinia prefecture, and the TEI professors. Addressing the Ecumenical Patriarch, TEI president Andreas Kanakis paid tribute to the "servant of theology, academic professor, cleric and Ecumenical Patriarch, who contributes to the promotion of the unity of the pan-Orthodox Church in advancing the inter-faith dialogue, and also the Greek Patriarch whom the TEI declares an honorary professor for his immense service to Hellenism and Orthodoxy and also his contribution to ecology". Opening the symposium, Bartholomew noted that the century that passed has been the most violent in the history of humanity, a century of indescribable brutality of man towards his fellow man, but also of unprecedented barbarity to the natural environment. After two bloody World Wars, he continued, today a third world war was taking place against nature. On Sunday afternoon, Bartholomew was made an honorary citizen of Kalamata, by unanimous decision of the city's Municipal Council, during a ceremony at the City Hall that was attended by Kouvelis, and the city's and prefecture's officials.