Greek Cultural Foundation become a carrier for book and will not be closed, despite any recent publications on the topic, says “K” Deputy Minister of Contemporary Culture Nicholas Giatromanolakis. As he explains, in the context of the forthcoming changes to the book and the related bill that will be tabled immediately, “there are concerns about how other responsibilities of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation, such as its branches abroad and Greek studies, will remain active. So, from his transformation EIP it does not affect or diminish the presence of Greece abroad.”

The problem arose, among other things, when the Byzantine scholar Eleni Glikatsi-Arveler said in her K statement. her fears, based on press coverage, of a possible closure of the EIP.

Referring to the thirty-year history of the Foundation, to its branches “in cities where Hellenism was strong” (for example, in Alexandria, Odessa, Belgrade, Trieste, Berlin and Bucharest), as well as to museums subordinate to it (Cavafy in Alexandria and the Friendship Society in Odessa ), Mrs. Arveler stressed that “its abolition will deal an irreparable blow to the teaching of the Greek language and the dissemination of Greek knowledge abroad and will become a serious spiritual decline” .

For his part, in a conversation with “K” Nikos Koukis, President of the Hellenic Cultural Foundation, mentioned the important work that the EIP has to showcase at the international level, he expressed the opinion that the Foundation can work in parallel with the upcoming book organization, while he also stressed that the organization did not have information about any changes planned by the Ministry of Culture.