Posted on September 18, 2008 by grpresspoland
(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 [...]
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(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 [...]
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(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 [...]
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(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 [...]
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(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 [...]
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(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 [...]
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