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Mrs. Angelopoulou-Daskalaki highlighted that the Olympic Games brought gains in infrastructure development, fostering pride among Greeks, and enhanced Greece’s global image

A prosecutor on Tuesday asked for guilty verdicts for nine of the 21 defendants in the trial regarding the response to the deadly fire that ripped through the East Attica town of Mati in July 2018, claiming 104 lives. 

Acclaimed composer Eleni Karaindrou, whose soaring melodies have graced the silver screen for some three decades and who has performed at prestigious events and venues around the world, did a single show last year at the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center just before the November lockdown.

In response to the social media firestorm in May that was caused by a post by the Greece 2021 committee that presented the first head of state of independent Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias as a dictator, its president, Gianna Angelopoulos, offered an apology on Wednesday for any offense caused.
The post in question had cited an excerpt from an article by a member of the committee.

Theodoros and Gianna Angelopoulos became the latest Greeks to donate 1 million euros to the fight against the new coronavirus epidemic in Greece, the Health Ministry announced on Monday.

The donation was accepted by Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias and has been channeled into the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research and Technology to help bolster its work.

In collaboration with the BEYOND Center of Excellence and the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology, the French Institute in Athens will host a conference at its Theo Angelopoulos Auditorium in Kolonaki titled "Climate Change Impacts: Space Innovation at the Service of the Citizen" on March 3.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday approved the expansion of the Greece 2021 committee, which is responsible for designing and supervising a program of celebrations to mark the bicentennial anniversary of Greece's War of Independence against Ottoman rule.

The head of the "Greece 2021" committee on the bicentennial of the declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821), Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, presented on Friday the logo of the committee.

The logo shows a ribbon forming the number "2" flowing through the "1", standing for the -21 suffix of 1821-20121.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday addressed an event presenting the government's initiative to mark the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek War of Independence in 1821.

The committee which will plan and oversee preparations to mark the bicentenary of the 19th-century revolt against Ottoman Turkey that led to the creation of the modern Greek state has already set up a mechanism for funding and sponsorships, its chairperson Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki said on Wednesday.