Government Vice-President and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos presented the logo of the upcoming Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union at a special event on November 25, 2013, on the premises of the foreign ministry. The logo will be the Greek presidency’s communication hallmark and will accompany all of its activities in the first half of 2014. More specifically, "we want this logo to be simple, spare and comprehensive.

Simple in design, but rich in substance and messages, as entailed by the Hellenic sense of proportion, as well as by our relationship to symbolism," said Venizelos.

The video "Logo Presentation Animation - Greek Presidency 2014" was screened, and the presidency’s motto is "Our common quest." After the video presentation, Venizelos spoke about of the basic elements of the Greek presidency’s cultural identity.

The Government Vice-President took the opportunity to unveil some of the basic elements of the Greek Presidency’s cultural identity. A series of cultural activities has been prepared in close collaboration with the Ministry of Culture. It includes, primarily, the opening ceremony of the Greek Presidency, which will take place on January 8, 2014, at the Athens Concert Hall, and the main content will be a show entitled "Journey to Eternity", with the orchestra and ballet from the National Opera. Also, an exhibition "Nautilus, Navigating Greece," dedicated to the sea and its diachronic relationship with Greece, will take place at the Bozar Museum of Brussels, from January to April 2014. 

Furthermore, Greek embassies in Europe and other parts of the world will carry out various cultural activities. Another activity will specifically link the Greek and the Italian presidencies, and it is the Mediterranean Year of 2014. In collaboration with the Presidency of the Italian Republic, a jointly organized cultural event will take place at the Presidential Palace for the duration of the last two months of the Greek Presidency and the first two months of the Italian presidency, with significant archaeological items from four different periods in Greece and Magna Graecia, as well as a simultaneous presentation of Greek and Italian contemporary visual artists.