Warsaw / Celebrating European Day of Languages (26 & 27/9)

Celebrating “European Day of Languages”, a project that promotes linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe, ten Cultural Institutes and Embassies – members of EUNIC Warsaw Cluster (EU National Institutes for Culture) – including the Greek Embassy in Warsaw, organized a two days cultural event at Zloty Tarasy , a multifunctional complex in the center of [...]

The Cretan Lawrence

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Imogen Grundon, Patrick Leigh Fermor: The Rash Adventurer. A Life of John Pendlebury, Libri 2007  John Pendlebury (1904-41), the ‘Cretan Lawrence’, was shot in the first months of the German occupation of Crete while organising bands of guerrillas to fight the invaders. Not a professional soldier, Pendlebury was chosen for the task [...]

Honour to the Greek Drama Master Karolos Koun

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)    A century has elapsed since the birth of Karolos Koun (1908-1987) and the Benaki Museum is hosting an exhibition in honour of the emblematic figure of the Greek theatre. The exhibition aims at highlighting the charismatic personality of Koun and presenting his creative progression, his aesthetic choices, as well as his influences by Greek [...]

Kreta w dwóch słowach

kreta w ostatnich latach stała się Okręgiem flagowym Turystyki Greckiej. Ponad 4.000.000 gości rocznie może rozkoszować się różnorodnością, unikalnością i oryginalnością Kreteńskiego Turystycznego produktu. Nie przypadkiem stała się Kreta, pierwszym greckim celem turystycznym. Jest ojczyzną Zeusa i Minosa, Theotokopoulosa (El Greco), Benizelosa, Ksylourisa, Katrakisa i Kazatzakisa. Kreta jest kolebką pierwszej Europejskiej Cywilizacji, piękną i różnorodną wyspą we [...]

Vote for Greek Natural Wonders

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)    The Petrified Forest of Lesvos, the Meteora Rocks, Mount Olympus, and Santorini, Archipelago are candidates for the list of the New Seven Wonders of Nature, to be compiled next summer in an online poll. The voting procedure of all candidates will be completed on July 7, 2009, when the 77 partaking sites will [...]

Greek Life Insurance Policy Programme from “New York Life Insurance Company”

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The New York Life Insurance Company began selling life insurance policies in the Ottoman Empire in 1882. In connection with turmoil caused by the outbreak of World War I, however, New York Life stopped selling policies in Europe and in the Ottoman Empire after 1914. Various reference works and other sources indicate [...]

Nowa epoka dla greckiego przewoźnika lotniczego Olimpiaki

(ERT)  Rzecznik rządu Theodoros Roussopoulos określił zezwolenie Komisji Europejskiej na zachowanie obecnej nazwy „Linie Lotnicze Olimpiaki” i kół olimpijskich jako duży sukces. Jednocześnie dodał, że mitem jest, że prywatyzacja firmy sprawi, że oddalone regiony zostaną  pozbawione rejsów lotniczych Olimpiaki.
Minister transportu Kostis Chadzidakis określił plan uzdrowienia jako „dużą interwencję strukturalną kładącą kres długoletniemu problemowi” i oświadczył, [...]

Lesbos kandyduje do listy “Siedmiu cudów przyrody”

(ERT)  Rezerwat Skamieniały Las na wyspie Lesbos kandyduje do listy „Siedmiu cudów przyrody” w ramach międzynarodowego konkursu prowadzonego w internecie.
Głosowanie dobiegnie końca 7 lipca 2009 roku i zostanie wybranych 77 regionów które otrzymają najwięcej głosów.
Następnie wybranych zostanie 21 regionów, głosowanie powtórzy się  i jesienią 2010 roku wyłonionych zostanie 7 cudów przyrody.

Helleńska Polonia

Dokument pt. „Helleńska Polonia” to film o Polakach rezydujących w słonecznej Grecji, kolebce filozofii, cywilizacji i kultury antycznej oraz nowożytnych Igrzysk Olimpijskich. Na przykładach rodzin polonijnych i mieszanych staraliśmy się wykazać wzajemne przenikanie się kultur, zwyczajów i zachowań oraz przedstawić zdarzenia świadczące o częściowej bądź całkowitej asymilacji ze społecznością grecką jej kulturą, religią, obyczajach i [...]

The Greek Idea

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Maria Koundoura: The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities, I. B. Tauris, 2007  How do those living in diaspora form their own national and transnational identity? The Greek Idea offers a new critical paradigm from which to explore these identities. Drawing upon postcolonial theory, Maria Koundoura addresses and analyzes [...]

Reading Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)  Julian Evans: An aesthetic of fatality (Times Literary Supplement  25.7.2008)
The Boundless Garden. Selected short stories, Volume One. By Alexandros Papadiamandis. Edited by Denise Harvey & Lambros Kamperidis, Athens: Harvey and Co. 
“The saint of modern Greek storytelling Alexandros Papadiamandis (1851- 1911) has rarely been published in English.  This is not a simple matter [...]

Europarliament TV

(GREEK NEW AGENDA)  The European Parliament now has its own web television station – called EuroparlTV – with programming in over 20 languages. The station was inaugurated yesterday by European Parliament President, Hans-Gert Pottering and Vice-President Alejo Vidal-Quadras, as well as Katerina Batzeli, MEP, Chairwoman of the Committee on Culture and Education at the European [...]

European Commissioner Danuta Hubner in Ahtens

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   European Commissioner for Regional Policy Danuta Hubner arrived in Greece on September 7 on an official visit to some of the country’s regions. Speaking to the press, Hubner commented on Greece’s performance on matters of regional policy. The Commissioner stated that she was pleased with Greece’s EU funds absorption rate for the [...]

Hellenic Railways

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   By 2014, the national railway network will have undergone major infrastructural changes, Hatzidakis announced at a joint press conference with the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Danuta Hubner, on September 9 in Athens. Electrical railway tracks as well as environmentalally-friendly urban transport and the tram line’s extension will be some of the [...]

Olympic Carrier Relaunched

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)    Marking a new era for Greece’s national air carrier, Transport Minister Kostas Hatzidakis announced that the European Union has given its approval for the relaunching of Olympic Airlines. “The state-owned company will be privatised” said the minister, explaining that the company at its present status will be liquidated and some of the [...]

Greek Literary Translation Prize for 2008

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The Hellenic Foundation for Culture (HFC) Literary Translation Prize for 2008 will be awarded to Roderick Beaton, Professor of Contemporary and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College, University of London, for the translation of the book “George Seferis: A Levant Journal.”  The book comprises selections from the notebooks that Seferis [...]

Green Energy in Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The Mediterranean Sea comprises many diverse regions – islands, mountain, rural and urban areas – but many of these areas have common environment and development problems, such as the issues of management and development of water and energy resources. The necessity for covering energy needs reliably in urban and rural areas gave [...]

Σας Kαλούμε να Γνωρίσετε την Ελλάδα / We Invite you to Explore Greece

Η GREECE IN WORLD (www.GreeceInWorld.com) μετά από πολυετή συλλογή στοιχείων και ερευνών έχει πλέον ανοίξει τις πόρτες της στον παγκόσμιο ιστό. Έχει σκοπό την προβολή της Ελλάδας, να γνωρίσει στους υποψήφιους επισκέπτες, την ιστορία, τον πολιτισμό, τα ήθη και έθιμα, τα αξιοθέατα, τις φυσικές καλλονές της και την πανάρχαια φιλοξενία των Ελλήνων. Το έργο της [...]

Green Energy Technologies in Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   Delivering a speech on “Climate change and green enterpreneurship“  at the 73rd Thessaloniki International Trade Fair, Secretary General for International Economic Relations and Development Cooperation Theodoros Skylakakis referred to the multiple benefits emanating from the enhancement of “the 21st new big industry” called green energy technologies. Greece aspires to acquire competitive advantage in fields such [...]

Hellenic Observatory & LSE

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The Hellenic Observatory Research Seminar series provides a forum for academic and policy research addressed mainly to student and academic audiences within London, but also to the wider Greek community in the UK. Topics cover mainly current economic, public policy and foreign policy issues related to Greece, Cyprus and southeast Europe region [...]