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Institute of Energy of Southeast Europe organizes Energy Week today through Thursday, including a series of related conferences and events.

The Greek government's policy on migrants will be a drastic advancement of measures for their integration and social participation, aimed at achieving a socially cohesive and just Greece, prime minister George Papandreou said on Wednesday, addressing the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development which is being held in Athens.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday 4th November, called on governments and international organisations to enhance their cooperation in dealing with challenges concerning global migration.

The president of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov yesterday invited his Greek counterpart Karolos Papoulias to make a first official visit for talks to resolve an ongoing dispute between Skopje and Athens over his countryA's name.

No man is a prophet in his own country. As a keen churchgoer and Catholic convert, Tony Blair must be familiar with those words from the Bible - " a proverb that applies closely to his own situation this week.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is due to arrive in Athens on Tuesday to take part in a conference focusing on Inter-faith dialogue.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will pay a two-day official visit to Athens next week to open the 3rd Global Forum on Migration and Development.

President of the Hellenic Republic Karolos Papoulias on Wednesday attended the military parade held in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to mark the October 28 national holiday - or Ochi Day - which commemorates Greece's decision to defy the Axis powers and join World War II on the side of the Allies.

Macedonian prime minister Nikola Gruevski and his Greek counterpart George Papandreou spoke for an hour at a meeting in Brussels on the sidelines of the European Council summit, discussing their bilateral dispute over the use of the name Macedonia is a conversation described as "tough" but an ice-breaker in the long-standing imbroglio.

Prime Minister George Papandreou on Wednesday briefly postponed his departure for Stockholm in order to visit Athens' Erythros Stavros hospital, where five of the six victims in Tuesday night's terrorist attack on a police station in Agia Paraskevi were being treated.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced plans to speak to leaders in Britain and Greece on the global challenges presented by climate change.

Politics Regional View Skopje Karolos Papoulias Greek President Karolos Papoulias has urged Macedonia's leaders to refrain from provocations and to, instead, contribute to the resolution of the countries' name row.

President Karolos Papoulias visits Thessaloniki to attend a series of events commemorating the cityA's liberation from Ottoman rule as well as celebrations for A'Ochi DayA' , the national holiday marking GreeceA's refusal to allow Axis troops to enter Greece in 1940.

"Patriotism has substance and a genuine content when it expresses selfless, active love for the country," President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias said on Sunday, upon arrival at Thessaloniki's Macedonia Airport to attend events marking the triple anniversary of the October 28 Ochi Day, the 97th anniversary of the city's liberation from Ottoman ...

The Tuesday edition of Athens' dailies at a glance EU pressure on Athens for immediate measures to curtail the fiscal deficit, the government's efforts to find a way for tenuring STAGE employees in the public sector, ongoing speculation on the succession to the main opposition New Democracy leadership, and President of the Republic Karolos ...

Greece's new Prime Minister George Papandreou on Friday presented his government's policy statement to the Parliament elected on October 4, calling on Greek society to rally together in order to overcome the crisis now affecting it on every level.

The newly appointed Ambassador of Armenia Gagik Ghalachyan presented his credentials to President of the Republic of Greece Karolos Papoulias.

's new socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou formally took office yesterday and named a slimmed-down cabinet to fulfil promises of steering the economy out of recession.

The Cabinet of newly-elected prime minister George Papandreou's PASOK government was sworn in on Wednesday morning by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, in the presence of President of the Republic Karolos Papoulias and premier Papandreou, and immediately headed to the Maximos Mansion for the first Cabinet meeting, after which the ...

Hellenes Vote Papandreou for PM Karamanlis Resigns as Head of ND ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's opposition Socialist party on Sunday October 4th 2009, defeated the incumbent center-right government of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, on the promise of Socialist leader George Papandreou to chart a new course for an economic comeback.