Minister without portfolio of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, responsible for European integration issues, Mr. Branko Ružić paid a working visit to Athens on 12 and 13 December 2013, when he met Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Mr. Dimitris Kourkoulas, with whom he discussed Serbia's European perspective, as well as preparations and priorities of the forthcoming Greece’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2014. Minister Ružić had separated meetings with Mr. Panos Carvounis, Head of the Representation of the European Commission in Greece, Ms. Marietta Giannakou, Head of the Parliamentary Delegation of the New Democracy in the European Parliament and Mr. Panayiotis Michalos, Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Development of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On this occasion it was organized working lunch with the representatives of the Greek-Serbian Business Council.