The Speaker of the House, Dimitris Sioufas, met with the visiting president and vice-president of the Greece-Australia Friendship Group, Australian Federal MPs Steve Georganas and Maria Vamvakinou. They were accompanied by South Australian state MP Stephanie Key - a state with a large number of Greek-Australians - and the Australian ambassador to Greece, Jeremy Newman. The meeting was also attended by the president of the Greek Parliament's Friendship Group, Anastasios Liaskos, who later had discussions with the Australian MPs.

On recent official visit to Austria, the President of the Greek Republic, Karolos Papoulias, told expatriate Greeks that he had come to listen to them. He said he was willing to contribute to resolving their problems, which he hoped were small ones.

An exhibition by the Union of Greek Etchers is scheduled to open in the Municipal Art Gallery of Antibes, in the south of France, on August 3, with the presentation of two main themes.

An informative event on the new Land Registry is being organized by the Germna-Hellenic Union for the Protection of Real Estate Owners in Dusseldorf in order to inform property owners on the significant legislative changes that have taken place concerning real estate ownership in Greece.

The Pan-Epirote Federation of Europe in cooperation with the University of Ioannina are organizing Greek language programs for young expatriate Greeks.