OGAE Greece new board

OGAE Greece have elected their new board. With the exception of the current president, Antonis Karatzikos, and vice-president, Kostas Zisis, the rest of the new board consists of new members.

The new OGAE Greece board consists of:

Antonis Karatzikos, president

Kostas Zisis, Vice president

Helena Papadopoulou, Secretary General

Panyiotis Lapas, Treasurer

Babis Grammatikopoulos, Rest of Greece and Europe Communications Officer

Giorgos Kalpakidis, Public Relations Officer

Andreas Kalaitzis, Festival and Entertainment officer

The new board will currently be working on the organisation of the 2007 OGAE Song Contest, which came to Greece from Italy as Helena Paparizou won last year with Mambo. The contest will be presented both in English and French and the board are in search of the presenters.

source:esctoday.com;OGAE Greece

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The new OGAE International Co-ordinator spoke to esctoday

Antonis Karatzikos, president of OGAE Greece, has been elected as the new International Coordinator of OGAE International. He will serve a two year term as a result of the recent elections held by OGAE presidents on 1st and 15th June.

esctoday.com spoke with the new OGAE IC in Athens to congratulate him on his election. Antonis spoke to esctoday about his plans for the immediate future, about his ambition to help found an OGAE club in every single participating country, about his expectations for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade and his views on the voting system.

"Let's discuss the forthcoming Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade

There are very high expectations for this next Eurovision Song Contest. First of all, it will be held in a very large stadium, so there will be a lot more fans present. It will be the biggest, or second biggest contest in history. If there are 15.000 seats it will be the second largest after Copenhagen, still it is huge. Consequently, the OGAE share of tickets will be larger, so more fans will travel to Belgrade. That means that we need to be much better organised this year. "

Read full interview HERE

Antonis Karatzikos:"OGAE is a large, loving family".

Antonis Karatzikos, president of OGAE Greece, has been elected as the new International Coordinator of OGAE International. He will serve a two year term as a result of the recent elections held by OGAE presidents on 1st and 15th June.

esctoday.com spoke with the new OGAE IC in Athens to congratulate him on his election. Antonis spoke to us about his plans for the immediate future, about his ambition to help found an OGAE club in every single participating country, about his expectations for the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest in Belgrade and his views on the voting system. The full interview will be published later tonight on esctoday.com.

The new OGAE International Coordinator also has a message for the readers of esctoday.com - especially those not in one of the OGAE clubs yet- is this: “OGAE is a large, loving family. We do things about and for the Eurovision Song Contest 12 months a year and we have a great time! It is really worth for someone to join and experience the whole thing from within.”

source:esctoday.com

Antonis Karatzikos elected as the new co-ordinator of OGAE International

OGAE Malta reports:

Antonis Karatzikos, club president of OGAE Greece has been elected as the new co-ordinator of OGAE International.

The election was held 1st and 15th June, with all OGAE clubs with full membership rights requested to cast their votes for their favourite candidate out of the 4 who presented their nominations. Antonis Karatzikos won the majority of votes and was declared as the new International Co-ordinator of the OGAE Network.

The other candidates were Simon Bennett (OGAE UK), Miroslav Luburic (OGAE Serbia) and Roi Yechezkel (OGAE Israel).

Antonis Karatzikos is the sixth International Co-ordinator of the OGAE Network, the fourth to be elected through a voting. This is the second time for Antonis to serve in this post.

Back in 2005, following Greece's triumph in the contest and following the unexpected resignation of the former IC Aykut Berber from Turkey, there was a need for an immediate replacement. Antonis volunteered to take his place and started working with the rest of the Greek Board, being a permanent I.C. for 9 months.

Following a decision by the OGAE presidents board present in Helsinki, a new election was held on June 2007. Mr. Antonis Karatzikos (OGAE Greece) will serve as the new co-ordinator of OGAE International for a 2-year period till June 2009.

Antonis plans as the new OGAE IC for the following years include the setting up of a new OGAE Website with participation of all clubs in designing and functioning; the upcoming OGAE contests; stronger and more intense relationship with leading Eurovision websites and the EBU and possible ways for closer co-operation between OGAE clubs making OGAE more democratic.

OGAE MALTA sends its best wishes to the new OGAE International Co-ordinator and looks forward to extend its co-operation with all the members of the OGAE Network for the benefit of all the local and international Eurovision fans and artistes.