REPORT
		On ABC Summer Academy – Lefkada, 16-20.06.2008
	Overview 2000-2006 Project Activities 2008 Project Activities 2007 News Gallery Contacts	In Greece for the fifth time took part the Annual ABC Summer School this year called ABC Summer Academy. It included again the meetings of the ABC Working Groups - EU Integration, Trade Facilitation and Project Sustainability and two Seminars – one on “Lobbying before the EU Institutions in Brussels” and one on “Opportunities in Aid Funded Business”. The Seminar on “Lobbying before the EU Institutions in Brussels” was carried out by Mr. Wim Martens, an expert at the DIHK Representative Office in Brussels. The main objective of the seminar was to inform the 17 participants about the EU institutions and legislative, the decision making process within the EU and the Lobbying before the EU institutions – the practice of lobby work, instruments, practicalities. The Seminar on “Opportunities in Aid Funded Business” was carried out by Mr. Christos Cheretakis, an expert from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece. The moderator gave different examples from the work of the Ministry. On the meetings of the Working Groups the specific problems and questions for each working group were discussed and each working group accepted an Annual Agenda.
		Pictures of the events see Gallery.