The ceremony for lighting the Olympic Flame at Ancient Olympia next month, starting the Olympic Torch Relay that will usher in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, is to feature a number of changes, including a new High Priestess, redesigned costumes and a new composer.
Ten shipwrecks, as well as important individual finds, dating indicatively from prehistory (3000 BC), the Classical period (460 BC), the Hellenistic period (100 BC to 100 AD) and the Roman years (200 BC - 300 AD), the Byzantine period (800 - 900 AD), even findings from the medieval and Ottoman periods, were discovered during the multi-year underwater archaeological survey in the maritime area of Kasos.
The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Theodoros Roussopoulos is currently attending an international conference on gender equality in action (68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women) organized by the United Nations in New York alongside women from various parts of the world.
Minister of Social Cohesion and Family Sofia Zacharaki expressed her conviction that cohesion and competitiveness are complementary objectives for the European Union, which must ensure that no European citizen is left behind. She conveyed this sentiment alongside Finance Minister Kostas Hadzidakis during the joint meeting of EU Finance, Labour, and Social Affairs Ministers.