The European Parliament, in today’s plenary session, adopted 3 key texts that complete the legislative work underpinning the Banking Union (Single Resolution Mechanism, Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive, and Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive).
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos presented before the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) in Strasbourg yesterday (14 April 2014) the developments in the process of drafting an EU Maritime Security Strategy.
Minister Venizelos said, inter alia: “Our aim is for the EU Maritime Security Strategy to broaden the so far one-dimensional perspective of maritime security, which is now somehow military and police oriented, by including the following:
The Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos presented before the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (AFET) in Strasbourg yesterday (14 April 2014) the basic legislative achievements to date of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the EU.
On Thursday 3 April 2014, the opening session of the Inter-parliamentary Conference on the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Defence and Security Policy (CFSP/CSDP), was held under the chairmanship of K. Tsiaras, Chairman of the Standing Committee on National Defence and Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Parliament.
The President of the Hellenic Republic, Karolos Papoulias, and his Italian counterpart, Giorgio Napolitano, opened the “Classicism and Europe: The European destiny of Greece and Italy” exhibition at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, on Friday, 28 March.
An exhibition celebrating ancient ties between Greece and Italy, and their legacy to European culture and unity, opens its doors on March 28 at Rome’s Presidential Quirinale Palace. The exhibition, "Classicism and Europe: The European destiny of Greece and Italy” aspires to illustrate the significance of the Greek and the Roman world in shaping European civilization and Europe’s contemporary cultural identity.
2,500 children circled the Acropolis raising more than 2000 colourful balloons on the sky and sending the message of peaceful coexistence of all people without racial discrimination.
41 sixth-grade pupils of the 6th Elementary School of Egaleo, on 12 March 2014 toured the premises of the Zappeion Press Centre and had the opportunity to have first-hand information on how it works, by “acting” as delegates and technicians.