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Queens of Syria Film Reinterprets Euripides’ Trojan Women [video]

A theatrical performance like no other is taking place at the Young Vic in London England, where a group of Syrian women are re-telling a tragic Greek tale from a modern-day perspective in a documentary filmed by Yasmin Fedda. For her award-winning...

World Population Day: More People in the EU, But Less in Greece

On January 1, 2016, Eurostat recorded the population of the European Union at 510.1 million people, compared with 508.3 million on January 1, 2015. During the year, there were 5.1 million babies born in the European Union, though more...

Greeks in UK Rush to Migration Agencies for Citizenship Following Brexit

In the years leading up to the UK's EU referendum vote on Brexit, EU citizens didn't have to worry about their livelihoods or their right to live, work and study in the UK. Since the UK voted pro-Brexit things have changed. In...

Scientists Use Mass Spectrometry to Analyze an Ancient Greek Amphora

An article published in the Journal of Mass Spectrometry focuses on research by Russian scientists into an analysis of an ancient vase. By identifying the components of the oldest bitumen (petroleum found in natural deposits) sample they have made...

European Parliament Discusses Replacing FRONTEX with New Agency

The full revision of the EU border agency FRONTEX’s mandate and its renaming to European Border and Coast Guard (EBCG) to allow for a better and faster safeguarding of the EU's external borders was discussed in the session of...

Brexit, Grexit and the evolution of Europe

Opinion article by Panos T. Xenokostas* The British people last week did not make a choice but rather a prediction. A prediction which the average citizen of the EU countries realizes through his own life. Without a political union, without...

Making a Difference: Donating Bras to Refugee Women in Greece’s Camps

  All it takes is one person to step forward from the crowd to make a difference in the lives of thousands. This is exactly what speech therapist Donna Greaves has done as her mounting dissatisfaction and frustration of the UK's...

Great Byzantine Art Relives at St. Petersburg’s Hermitage

A total of 121 masterpieces of Byzantine art will be exhibited at the State Hermitage Museum of St. Petersburg in Russia until October 2. The opening ceremony of "Byzantium Through the Centuries" took place on Friday. The exhibition is part...

‘Suntan’ by Argyris Papadimitropoulos Wins Top Prize at Edinburgh Film Festival

The film 'Suntan' directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos and shot entirely on the island of Antiparos won the prize for Best International Feature Film at the 70th Edinburgh Film Festival on Friday. The film, which premiered at Rotterdam, is Papadimitropoulos'...

Russian Tourism to Greece Rose 523% in March

The number of tourists heading to Greece from Russia rose to 523 percent in March compared to the same period in the previous year, according to a study by Pay Pal and Data Insight of the Russian Association of...