The Deputy minister attached to the Prime Minister & Government Spokesperson responsible for Audiovisual Affairs (TV, radio, internet), Simos Kedikoglou, will present tomorrow, Tuesday 21 January, at the CULT Committee of the European Parliament, the relevant priorities of the Greek Presidency of the EU Council.

The Greek Presidency will work on the following issues:

The Greek Minister of Labour, Social Security and Welfare, Ioannis Vroutsis to deliver a speech on the Social Dimension of the EMU at an Interparliamentary Committee meeting in Brussels, on 22 January 2014, during the European Parliamentary Week on the European Semester Cycles 2013-2014.

Greek Presidency priorities to be presented at the European Parliament EMPL Committee meeting by Minister of Labour, Social Security and Welfare on 23 January 2014.

Minister of Finance, Yannis Stournaras, will visit Brussels next week, in order to participate on Wednesday, 22 January, in the Interparliamentary Conference on Economic Governance of the European Union, which is co-organised and co-presided by the Hellenic Parliament and the European Parliament. The President of the ECOFIN will address the concluding plenary session and will exchange views with the members of the European and national parliaments (12:00 – 13:10).