After a flurry of cries of foul over Erdogan's statement on troops, he said Turkish troops would remain on the island as long as GREEK troops are present ...
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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, January 15, 2017
What was achieved at the Geneva Cyprus talks?
Did Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akıncı engage in a treacherous act and surrender to the demands of GREEK Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades, ...
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A true journalist of past times
He missed the latest Cyprus round by days. Mr. Stathis Eustathiadis, the doyen of GREEK journalism, one of the last of the old guard who took the ...
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Turkish, GREEK Cypriots reject each other's peace maps
The Turkish and GREEK Cypriot delegations have failed to agree on maps for new borders on the divided island state, each slamming the other's ...
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GREEK FM denies press reports blaming him for Cyprus talks breakup
GREEK Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias sharply criticised foreign and GREEK press reports on Sunday which blamed him for the breakup in Cyprus talks ...
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President Anastasiades and Greek Premier discuss strategy following Geneva Conference on Cyprus
Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades on Saturday held a phone conversation with Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras, following the Geneva Conference on Cyprus which took place on January 12. The two men discussed the outcome of the Conference and the strategy they ...
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Greek PM: GREECE and Cyprus do not have divergent opinions
GREECE and Cyprus are not divergent in their opinions, nor does GREECE have an “inflexible” position on the Cyprus, an announcement from the Greek ...
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Greek Tourism: Positive signs for 2017 with scheduled airline seats rising by 19%
Demand for next year’s tourism season in Greece is showing an increase since the first indications of airline seat capacity for 2017 are optimistic, while early bookings from many traditionally strong markets are also on the up. The question of security ...
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Greece Struggles to Absorb Funds Needed to Help Migrants and Refugees
Greece is struggling to make use of EU money for migrants and refugees after having absorbed just a fraction of the 509 million euros in funding for up to 2020. So far, Athens has used about 2 percent of 294.6 million euros from the EU’s Asylum ...
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The City of Paphos Prepares for Capital of Culture Opening Ceremony
The opening ceremony will also contain a spectacle of lights and sound, while GREEK singer Alkistis Protopsalti and other artists will have a central role ...
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Healthy Pizza Recipe from Kayla Itsines
You love pizza, you love pizza, and apparently Kayla Itsines loves pizza too. The superstar Australian trainer pays homage to her Greek heritage, and fuses it with her affinity for pizza with this tasty, lightened up, wholesome recipe that looks absolutely ...
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Panathinaikos down to 4th after 0-0 draw against AEK
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Panathinaikos fought crosstown rival AEK Athens to a scoreless draw in Sunday's capital derby, allowing Xanthi and Panionios to go above it in the Greek league.
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Texas man uses metal detector, makes stunning discovery
… (Greece). Greek Civilization, 4th Century BC. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) GREECE - … sea between Citing and Anticitera (Greece). Greek Civilization, 4th Century BC. (Photo … to Rome, which lies between Crete and the Peloponnese close to …
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Europe braces for the next wave of 'record levels' of migrants and economic refugees
[migrant smuggling mediterranean sea]AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti Tens of thousands of people seeking better lives are expected to trek across deserts and board unseaworthy boats in war-torn Libya this year in a desperate effort to reach European shores by way of Italy. More than 181,000 people, most so-called "economic migrants" with little chance of being allowed to stay in Europe, attempted to cross the central Mediterranean last year from Libya, Africa's nearest stretch of coast to Italy. About 4,500 died or disappeared. Hundreds already have taken to the sea this month, braving the winter weather. In the latest reminder of the journey's perils, more than 100 people were missing off Libya's coast over the weekend after a migrant boat sunk. Some European leaders are warning of a fresh migration crisis when sea waters warm again and more people choose to put their lives in the hands of smugglers. "Come next spring, the number of people crossing over the Mediterranean will reach record levels," Malta Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, whose country holds the European Union's presidency, predicted. "The choice is trying to do something now, or meeting urgently in April, May...and try to do a deal then." The 28-nation EU already has a controversial deal to stem the flow of migrants from Turkey, which has agreed to try to stop the number of migrants leaving the country and to take back thousands more. In exchange, Turkey is supposed to receive billions of euros, visa-free travel for its citizens, and fast-tracked EU membership talks. Now, the EU wants to adapt this outsourcing pact to the African nations that migrants are leaving or are jumping off from to reach Europe, despite criticism that the agreement sends asylum-seekers back to countries that could be unsafe for them. The bottom line is that the Turkey deal works. The number of people arriving in the Greek islands, for instance, plunged over the last year despite political wrangling over whether Turkey's government was meeting the conditions for securing the visa-free travel incentive. [afp hungarys orban defies eu with migrant detentions]AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti And EU nations have even fewer scruples about turning away migrants who take the central Mediterranean route to Italy since they mostly are job seekers who would be ineligible for asylum. Niger, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Mali and Chad are all on the EU's radar, and dealing with them is proving expensive. But the bloc's arrangement with Turkey has shown that the best way of stemming migrant flows is to stop people taking to the sea. Libya and Egypt are the main migrant departure points, and pacts with them would probably have the biggest immediate impact. Muscat wants to build on a deal Italy is trying to reach with Libya by adding EU funds and other support. He also thinks the EU's anti-smuggler naval mission, Operation Sophia, should be extended into Libyan territorial waters to stop people in unsafe boats from reaching open water. Easier said than done. The EU has been unable to secure United Nations backing for such a move, and Libya has no central authority with the reach or stability to negotiate a long-term agreement with the Europeans. "The reality of Libya right now is that there is no unified government controlling all parts of the country, and no end of groups willing to upend things if there is an advantage in it for them," Carlo Binda, a Libya expert with Malta-based political and development advisers Binda Consulting International. Libya's neighbor Egypt appears a more viable option. Many people have set out for Europe from Egypt in recent months, mainly migrants from the Horn of Africa trying to avoid dangerous Libya and increasingly Egyptians themselves, according to the EU's border agency Frontex. Despite some instability, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a former general who led the 2013 military removal of an elected Islamist president, is a man with whom the Europeans feel they can do business. Sissi also wields plenty of influence in Libya. [Egyptians celebrate after the swearing-in ceremony of President elect Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, in front of the Presidential Palace in Cairo, June 8, 2014. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih ]AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti Egypt's economy has been battered by unrest since the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. If there is one thing the world's biggest trading bloc does well, it is raise funds to pay for its problems. "Egypt is the country with which one could come to some sort of agreement," Maltese Foreign Minister George Vella said. "There is stability to a certain extent, and they are interested because even they themselves have got their own problem with migration." Time is of the essence. The EU has for several years tried to cobble together migration polices while people died at sea. The refugee emergency — Europe's worst since World War II — also has raised tensions among EU member countries. Some countries have erected anti-migrant fences or reintroduced border controls amid deep disagreement over how to manage the challenge. "Things are getting complicated. I would rather face the music now," Muscat said. NOW WATCH: Watch President Obama tear up while addressing Michelle in his farewell speech
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Moscow didn’t do anything in America’s last election that Washington hasn’t done elsewhere in the world
[Donald Trump]Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ever since Donald Trump won the presidency last November, perhaps no issue has consumed America’s political class more than the question of whether Russia interfered in the U.S. election. The White House, the FBI, and the rest of the intelligence community says it did, although the government has still not provided the public with the concrete evidence on which that conclusion is based. With the legitimacy of his election on the line, Trump has gone from dismissing the allegations entirely (and denigrating the intelligence community) to saying any possible Russian activities had no effect on the outcome. After all, he tweeted, the Russians didn’t hack any voting machines, so anything else they may have done is irrelevant. Lost in the furor over what Moscow did or did not do, and what effects it did or did not have, is the broader question of what this incident says about Russian intentions and aims. Just how unusual was it for great powers to interfere in a democracy’s electoral processes, and just how outraged should Americans be by the alleged activities? Distinguished historian Marc Trachtenberg, professor emeritus at UCLA, thinks all this outrage is naive, and evidence of a clear double standard. In the following guest column, he provides some historical perspective that might temper our collective outrage just a bit. His point is not that Americans should be complacent or unconcerned by these activities, but rather that we should be neither surprised by them nor quick to see them as evidence of newfound Russian hostility. Instead, he suggests, this interference is a type of behavior that the United States helped establish; indeed, meddling in other countries’ politics has been an American specialty for a long time. One might even go a step further: This sort of thing is just “business as usual” in the competitive world of international politics: It’s not like states didn’t interfere in one another’s internal politics in ancient Greece, in the Renaissance, or in the first half of the 20th century. If so, then the real lesson is to fix our own system so that such interventions won’t matter, instead of focusing solely on what Putin did or not do. A Double Standard? By Marc Trachtenberg The American political class has been working itself into a lather over the hacking of a number of email accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party, evidently by Russian intelligence, and the subsequent leaking of information from those emails during the recent presidential election campaign. Those leaks, it is said, hurt Hillary Clinton and might well have cost her the election. The prevailing view is that what the Russians did was intolerable — that what we had here was an outrageous intrusion by a foreign power into our internal democratic political process. You don’t hear much nowadays about transparency and the “public’s right to know.” What is emphasized instead is the threat to American democracy posed by those Russian actions. What nerve the Russians had even trying to hack into the private communications of American political leaders! What nerve they had trying to influence our presidential election! [Vladimir Putin]Drew Angerer/Getty Images But isn’t there a bit of a double standard at work here? The complainers certainly know that the U.S. government eavesdrops, as a matter of course, on the private communications of many people around the world. The National Security Agency, whose job it is to do this kind of eavesdropping, has a budget of about $10 billion, and, according to an article that came out in the _Washington Post_ a few years ago, intercepts and stores “1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications” every day. The NSA has scored some extraordinary successes over the years. At one point during the Cold War, a recently declassified history of the NSA tells us, a U.S. intercept operation operating out of the American Embassy in Moscow “was collecting and exploiting the private car phone communications of Politburo leaders.” As Bob Woodward noted in 1987, “elite CIA and National Security Agency teams,” called “Special Collection Elements,” could “perform espionage miracles, delivering verbatim transcripts from high-level foreign-government meetings in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and phone conversations between key politicians.” And the U.S. government was not just spying on enemies and terrorists. It was, and presumably still is, very interested in what the leaders of friendly countries are saying to one another. In 1973, for example, Arthur Burns, then chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, noted in his diary that the U.S. government apparently knew “everything that goes on at German cabinet meetings.” Should we be outraged by any of this? This sort of spying, when we do it, is widely accepted. I doubt whether there is a single member of the U.S. national security establishment who would like to go back to the days when “gentlemen did not read each other’s mail.” But if we’re going to eavesdrop on other countries, we shouldn’t be too surprised — let alone indignant — when other countries do it to us. In the present case, however, it is not just the hacking that people object to. It is the fact that this information was used to influence our election. But here, too, a certain double standard is at work. Since 1945, America has intervened in the internal political affairs of other countries as a matter of course. Our basic attitude has been that free elections are great — as long as they don’t produce outcomes the U.S. government doesn’t like. Many of these episodes — Indochina, Congo, Chile, the Dominican Republic, and so on — are quite well-known. Other cases — like Guyana, where the Kennedy administration put heavy pressure on the British to prevent Cheddi Jagan from coming to power through the democratic process — are less familiar. The practice was more common during the Cold War than people realize. [Dwight D. Eisenhower Ike president general]Drew Angerer/Getty Images Indeed, the United States felt free to intervene, sometimes massively, in the internal political affairs of our democratic allies. To be sure, most people are vaguely aware of the fact that such interventions were common in the late 1940s. To cite but one example: The U.S. ambassador in Paris, according to his diary, told the French prime minister in 1947, “no Communists in gov. or else.” But even after the situation in Western Europe had stabilized, direct intervention was by no means out of the question if the stakes were high enough. The Eisenhower administration, for example, made it clear to the German people how it wanted them to vote in their 1953 elections; That intervention, according to German political scientists who studied this issue closely, resulted in a landslide victory for the conservative Konrad Adenauer government. A decade later, however, after the Americans had soured on Adenauer, the U.S. government played a leading role in driving him from power — an extraordinary episode that, even today, few people on either side of the Atlantic know much about. None of this should be dismissed as ancient history. The habits that were formed during the Cold War period remain very much intact. The U.S. government still feels it has the right to influence the outcomes of elections in other countries. Everyone remembers how President Barack Obama warned the British, just before the Brexit vote, that if they chose to leave the European Union, they would be “in the back of the queue” when it came to making trade deals with the United States. Perhaps Obama was just warning British voters about the inevitable consequences and not making an explicit (if subdued) threat; but in either case he was actively trying to influence the outcome of the referendum itself. [obama london shakespeare]Drew Angerer/Getty Images But the less well-known case of America’s involvement in Ukrainian politics is far more revealing. In 2014, Victoria Nuland, a high State Department official, was taped, presumably by Russian intelligence, talking with the U.S. ambassador in Kiev, Geoffrey Pyatt. The tape of that intercepted phone conversation was soon posted on YouTube. It was clear that Nuland and Pyatt had strong feelings about who should be running things in Ukraine. It was also clear that the United States (to use Pyatt’s term) had a “scenario” for bringing about the political changes that were to its liking. As the _Washington Post_ put it, they spoke “like political strategists, or perhaps like party bosses in a smoky backroom. Using shorthand and nicknames, they game out what they would like to see opposition figures do and say, and discuss how best to influence some opposition decision-making.” None of this was considered out of bounds, and the Nuland affair did not even get much attention at the time. Nuland was certainly not fired from her job. The finger was instead pointed at the Russians for having had the audacity to listen in on and then leak that phone conversation in the first place. The assumption is that while we have the right to intervene in the internal political affairs of all kinds of countries around the world, it is outrageous if any of them try to do the same thing to us. We have the right to eavesdrop on the private communications of the leaders of foreign countries, but it is outrageous that they should try to hack into the email accounts of American leaders and their associates. America is the “indispensable nation,” and the rules that apply to other countries simply do not apply to us. Those are the unspoken assumptions, and it’s not hard to imagine how foreigners react to the sort of behavior they lead to. Does the word “arrogant” come to mind here? My own feeling is that a double standard of this sort is morally repulsive and politically counterproductive. I don’t think we should arrogate to ourselves rights that we would not grant to others. But what that means is that, given the way we behave, we should not get too upset if other countries behave the same way. If we approach the recent email hacking affair with those thoughts in mind, we should be able to take what the Russians did in stride. It was in line with the way the world works — a world that is in large part of our own making. NOW WATCH: 6 'healthy' eating habits you are better off giving up
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A Heckuva Way to Bail Out Germany’s Banks
The government, knowing voters’ exhaustion, is adamant that it won’t legislate a multiyear package of pension cuts and income-tax increases, which the International Monetary Fund says is the only way for Greece to hit its agreed-upon budget targets.
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Visit Athens in winter, without the crowds and heat
ATHENS, GREECE (AP) - As a seaside metropolis with a lively outdoor vibe and dozens of picturesque islands beckoning nearby, Athens is more often ...
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More and more Turks buying Greek property
Turks acquiring property in GREECE are mostly people with a high level of education, medium or high income, originating from western Turkey and ...
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Quality is not an act, it is a habit
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian.
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PASOK Still has Open Political and Ideological Fronts with the Right, Says PASOK Leader Gennimata
Democratic Alliance and PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata on Sunday reiterated her invitation to all members of the area to rally with the Democratic Alliance, in her address to the PASOK committee. We seek to become the big, the progressive majority wave that will have a decisive impact to the developments in Greece. That will impose the […]
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Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Kishi Visits Hosting Center at Eleonas
Greek Deputy Migration Minister Yiannis Balafas visited with Japanese State Minister for Foreign Affairs Nobuo Kishi at the refugees hosting center of Eleonas on Sunday. Kishi, who is paying a three-day official visit to Greece talked with the refugees for ...
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GREECE Athena High School
Millie Dillmount, a Kansas girl determined to make it in New York City, tears up her return ticket shortly after arriving in the city and sets out in search of ...
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Thessaloniki Mayor Boutaris: “I am ashamed to be Greek”
The Mayor of Thessaloniki Yannis Boutaris triggered uproar on Sunday when he publicly said that he is ashamed to be Greek. “I am ashamed that I am Greek because when I go abroad I am treated as if I were a leper,” Boutaris said at a meeting organized by former […]
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Turkey is Cyprus' guarantee: Turkish Cypriot president
Earlier this week, Turkish and GREEK Cypriot leaders as well as the foreign ministers of the island's guarantor countries – Turkey, Greece, and the ...
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Married priest suspended for sending woman lewd selfies
Father Luke Melackrinos, a married father of three and the spiritual leader of the GREEK Orthodox Cathedral of St. Paul, was called into a Nassau ...
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State funeral held for Greece's slain ambassador to Brazil
[The coffin of late Greek Ambassador to Brazil Kyriakos Amiridis is carried out of a church during a funeral procession, at the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017. Police have said they believe Amiridis, whose charred body was found in a car in Brazil, was killed by his wife's lover under her orders. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)]THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece's ambassador to Brazil, who was murdered there last month, has been buried with full military and civilian honors normally reserved for government ministers.
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The Latest: 7 bodies of migrants found near Spain, off coast
The rescue service says the coast is currently being patrolled for survivors on another drifting boat that reportedly departed from neighboring Morocco. Tens of thousands of people seeking better lives are expected to trek across deserts and board unseaworthy boats in war-torn Libya this year in a desperate effort to reach European shores by way of Italy. Some European leaders are warning of a fresh migration crisis when sea waters warm again and more people choose to put their lives in the hands of smugglers. The 28-nation EU already has a controversial deal to stem the flow of migrants from Turkey, which has agreed to try to stop the number of migrants leaving the country and to take back thousands more in exchange for billions of euros to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, visa-free travel for its citizens and fast-track EU membership talks. [...] the EU wants to adapt this outsourcing pact to the African nations whose migrants are trying to reach Europe, despite criticism that the agreement sends asylum-seekers back to countries that could be unsafe for them. The number of people arriving in the Greek islands, for instance, plunged over the last year despite political wrangling over whether Turkey's government was respecting the EU's conditions. [...] EU nations have even fewer scruples about turning away migrants who take the central Mediterranean route to Italy since they mostly are job seekers who would be ineligible for asylum. In his Sunday noon blessing, Francis recalled that the theme of this year's migrant day message concerned the vulnerability of young migrants — "our young brothers" whom often flee home alone and face "so many dangers."
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Two Quakes jolt the Ιsland of Lesvos
Two light earthquakes measuring 4.7 and 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted the island of Lesvos, Greece early on Sunday. The quakes’ epicenter was located on the Turkish coast opposite Lesvos. The seismic sequence recorded in the area is normal, said seismologists. No injuries or damages were reported. Earthquakes have historically caused widespread damage across […]
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Germany: Merkel ally regrets manner of critic's departure
She argued that Merkel's government has exceeded its mandate by allowing large numbers of migrants in and eurozone bailouts to Greece and by accelerating Germany's exit from nuclear power. CDU general secretary Peter Tauber told the dpa news agency Sunday ...
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Stifling our creative forces
The pauperization of what used to be GREECE'S middle class continues at a fast pace. Exorbitant taxes and social security contributions are suffocating ...
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Lifting the obstacles
GREECE is weighed down by some very specific problems that make getting back on its feet that much harder. Its huge debt is one problem, of course, ...
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GREECE strives to absorb EU's migration funds
GREECE is struggling to make use of EU money for migrants and refugees after having absorbed just a fraction of the 509 million euros in funding for up ...
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Kids have so much homework, even parents are complaining
In GREECE, more and more parents and teachers believe that homework should be restricted. “I want my children to have free time,” says Maria Giata, ...
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Keeping Tabs on Technicals for Global X FTSE GREECE 20 ETF (GREK)
Keeping an eye on moving averages for Global X FTSE GREECE 20 ETF (GREK), the 50-day is 7.79, the 200-day is at 7.6, and the 7-day is 8.14.
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On Greek Debts and the Moral Thing to Do [Good Life series]
The Greek mess is complicated, but in sorting through complex messes it’s useful to start with simpler cases and build up. All sides in the discussion are appealing to moral considerations about responsibility, fairness, and prudence. Part of the debate ...
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The Last Supper review – Birtwistle's enigmatic millennial catchup with Christ
CITY HALLS, GLASGOW The disciples break bread with Jesus 2,000 years on in an intense drama semi-staged by the BBCSSO – which, like most meals, could have been more balanced The Last Supper is Harrison Birtwistle’s intense and mysterious “dramatic tableau” — an opera, but more static and more stylised — with a libretto by the late Canadian poet Robin Blaser. It premiered in 2000 and was specifically a millennium piece: it deals with time, the weight we put on single moments (the striking of midnight, the Crucifixion), how we rework those moments in hindsight, how we replay old stories with horrible inevitability and re-enact rituals we would rather escape. Hearing the work in 2017, its depiction of historical amnesia and collective entrapment felt starkly relevant. This is not easy entertainment by anyone’s standards. Birtwistle himself has called it “a tough grub”, and though we all know the story, broadly speaking, the detailed implications are obscure. Time telescopes across two millennia but for two hours nothing much happens. The premise is that Ghost — Greek chorus, conscience of the audience, sung with superb conviction by Susan Bickley — invites the disciples to reconvene for another Last Supper. The men trickle in, greet each other, chat about what they’ve been up to for the past 2,000 years. Judas turns up against the odds and the others shun him; I was deeply moved by Daniel Norman’s diffident and remorseful portrayal. Then Jesus arrives, a tremendously noble and resonant performance from Roderick Williams, and begins to play out Passover events. Continue reading...
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SNF-Funded Greek Diaspora Fellows to Conduct Projects with Greek Universities
The Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program will send 21 Greek- and Cypriot-born US scholars to work with their peers in Greece. The post SNF-Funded Greek Diaspora Fellows to Conduct Projects with Greek Universities appeared first on The National Herald.
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Honeymoon in Greece
My fiance and i are planning to leave for our honeymoon either to day after the wedding sept 25th or sept 29th. I have a long list of things i want so this may be a challenge. I would really love to see ancient ruins (some associated with greek mythology ...
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PM Tsipras Speaks on the Phone with President Anastasiades of Cyprus
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece and President Nicos Anastasiades of Cyprus discussed on the phone the latest developments on the Cyprus issue and exchanged views ahead of the continuation of the conference on Cyprus, said a Cyprus government ...
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High taxes, red tape put off foreign filmmakers from shooting in Greece
According to a study by the Association of GREEK Producers for Cinema, audiovisual projects comprise one of the 10 fastest-growing sectors of the ...
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Scordalia (Greek Garlic Sauce)
Peel potato and boil until tender. Let cool and place in food processor. In this recipe, the potato can be omitted, but you will need to use a full loaf of white bread. Rinse the bread under cold water and squeeze out excess water. Place in food ...
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TC source: New round of high-level talks ‘within January’
Talks in Geneva last week failed to produce a breakthrough in a conflict spanning decades, though the three countries which are stakeholders in Cyprus – Britain, Greece and Turkey – agreed to set up the working group to look at security arrangements ...
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Crisis warnings sound as EU gears up for new migrant wave
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Tens of thousands of people seeking better lives are expected to trek across deserts and board unseaworthy boats in war-torn Libya this year in a desperate effort to reach European shores by way of Italy. Some European leaders are warning of a fresh migration crisis when sea waters warm again and more people choose to put their lives in the hands of smugglers. The 28-nation EU already has a controversial deal to stem the flow of migrants from Turkey, which has agreed to try to stop the number of migrants leaving the country and to take back thousands more in exchange for billions of euros to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, visa-free travel for its citizens and fast-track EU membership talks. [...] the EU wants to adapt this outsourcing pact to the African nations migrants are leaving or jumping off from to reach Europe, despite criticism that the agreement sends asylum seekers back to countries that could be unsafe for them. The number of people arriving in the Greek islands, for instance, plunged over the last year despite political wrangling over whether Turkey's government was respecting the conditions to secure visa-free travel in Europe's Schengen area, where passport checks are not required. "The reality of Libya right now is that there is no unified government controlling all parts of the country, and no end of groups willing to upend things if there is an advantage in it for them," Carlo Binda, a Libya expert with Malta-based political and development advisers, Binda Consulting International.
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'He wants to be emperor': How Mark Zuckerberg 'quotes Greek legend' to Facebook staff as friends say he is primed to run for president in 2024
In the latest indicator that he may one day run for president, Vanity Fair quotes several friends of the CEO who say he is well suited to politics and has designs for a career beyond Silicon Valley. They say the 32-year-old is naturally drawn to ...
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Fierce Merkel critic resigns from conservative party
Steinbach also cited Germany's participation in euro zone bailout programmes for highly indebted countries such as Greece, a policy she said had "unhinged" the EU's Growth and Stability Pact and violated joint rules. The 73-year-old politician, a CDU ...
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Turkey Detains 9 Colonels in North Cyprus for Gulen Ties
Gulen denies the claims. Earlier this week, top diplomats from Turkey, Greece and Britain met in Geneva to discuss ways of providing post-reunification security for the divided island of Cyprus.
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Did you know these Hollywood stars were Greek? (photos)
… life and all different backgrounds. Greeks are known as very proud … on TheRichest.com about the Greeks of the Hollywood. There are … ten celebrities who are of Greek descent. 1. Jennifer Aniston 2 …
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Heavy rainfall and snow to hit Greece, EMY forecasts
… Peloponnese, central and eastern mainland Greece, Euboea and in some areas … and semi-mountainous regions of mainland Greece, as well as lowland regions …
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Greek Yogurt Bars/Belkys
Eating right can be tough — especially if you’ve got a big sweet tooth, but we’ve got a treat that won’t leave you feeling guilty. A light and healthy snack is on the menu, as we grab a Bite with Belkys. Simply mix together the Greek yogurt, maple ...
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Two attention-getting gruners and three other lively wines to try
To round out the selections, we have a lively red from Greece, an intriguing cabernet franc from the Loire Valley and, from Chile, one of the best boxed wines I’ve tasted in a long time. Kamptal, Austria, $43 This wine somehow achieves the weight and ...
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