How the world sees Greece
An advisor of the top European court announced that Denmark violated European Union law in a dispute with Greece over feta cheese on Thursday. Advocate General Tamara Capeta of the Court of Justice of the European Union stated that Denmark violated EU law by allowing Danish companies to sell cheese called “feta” outside of the […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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Greek long jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou won the gold medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships on Friday with an astonishing jump of 8.55 meters which is the seventh-best jump in the history of indoor athletics. The 24-year-old athlete from the city of Giannitsa, northern Greece, confirmed his status as one of the top Greek athletes […] Read the full story on GreekReporter.com.
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High energy costs are stoking unrest in parts of Europe, with Spain deploying more than 23,000 police officers amid a truckers' strike Friday, while farmers in France and Greece snarled traffic with their protests.
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You might consider the city of Budapest, divided by the Danube River into two distinctive cities--Buda and Pest--to be essentially one large World Heritage Site.
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Abbey, Dublin The political intrigues muddy the drama of conscience but this is a sleek futuristic staging of Sophocles’ tragedy, adapted by Darren Murphy A defiant young woman imprisoned in a perspex cube no longer wants to be called Antigone. Darren Murphy’s new adaptation of the Greek tragedy seems similarly ambivalent about its origins, as if unsure whether to shrug off the original entirely. In his reduced version, subtitled “after Sophocles”, the city of Thebes has been ravaged by a dangerous virus. During this state of emergency, X’ntigone (Eloise Stevenson) has joined a resistance movement against her uncle Creon’s government. About to proclaim Freedom Day, Creon (Michael James Ford) promises to release her if she denounces her dead brother as a traitor. Emma Jordan’s sleek production for Belfast’s Prime Cut and the Mac has a futuristic edge, with Ciaran Bagnall’s design suggesting an art gallery where seductive technology enables new forms of surveillance and control. In an intense confrontation between uncle and niece, each accuses the other of “weaponising” the virus. Bristling with references to culture wars, including plans to destroy statues of dead statesmen, intergenerational conflict is the central theme here, powerfully portrayed. X’ntigone’s disgust at Creon’s cynicism is expressed in Stevenson’s physical revulsion, while Ford’s tone is smoothly supercilious, mocking her new “playground name”. At the Abbey theatre, Dublin, until 26 March Continue reading...
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Greece’s Consul General in Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, will stay overnight near the city of Uman, in central Ukraine, where he arrived on Thursday after his evacuation from the consulate general on Tuesday, said Greek diplomatic sources. The Greek diplomat stayed in the city of Zaporizhzhia overnight Wednesday, and he will continue his journey towards Moldova […] The post Consul General Androulakis arrives at Uman, will head to Moldova on Friday, say Greek diplomatic sources appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Greece’s tourism sector will be able to remain resilient, despite the crises, based on a clear strategy, technology and data analysis that helps the sector adjust when it’s needed, according to a webinar organised by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) on Wednesday. Tourism is resilient and always recovers, according to those participating in the webinar. […] The post Webinar on ‘travel resilience’: Greek tourism sector is resilient and always recovers appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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