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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-03-23
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[01] PM Karamanlis to attend Treaty of Rome anniversary event in Berlin
[01] PM Karamanlis to attend Treaty of Rome anniversary event in Berlin
Prime minister Costas Karamanlis leaves Saturday for Berlin, where he
will attend the informal meeting of the EU Heads of State and
Government celebrating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the
Community's founding Treaty of Rome.
At noon on Saturday, Karamanlis will take part in a meeting of the
European People's Party (PPE, the Europarliament political group to
which his ruling New Democracy party belongs), while on Saturday night
he will attend a dinner in honour of the Heads of State and Government
hosted by German President Horst Koehler.
On Sunday morning, Karamanlis will meet with European Commission
President Jose Manuel Barroso, after which he will attend the ceremony
marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, and
the signing event adopting the Declaration of Berlin which, although
just short of three pages long, aspires to opening up a new chapter for
the prospects of the venture called the European Union, and chiefly to
help overcome the alienation between the existing structure and the
citizens of the member states.
The Declaration will be signed symbolically by the heads of the EU's
three institutional bodies: the European Council, the European
Commission, and the European Parliament.
Later, Karamanlis will attend a working lunch of the Heads of State and
Government.
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