Cannes Film Festival to Honor Greece
Greece will be featured at the 66th Cannes Film Festival in Regions Capitales pour le cinema that will take place from May 15-26 as the most noted of the world’s events on movies No Greek film has been...
View ArticleIndia Blues, Greek Surprise in Cannes
Two young men, a house and the different feelings they experience during the development of their relationship is the basic recipe on which the film India Blues is based. The director George Markakis...
View ArticleCredit Agricole First-Quarter Profit Jumps After Greek Exit
Credit Agricole SA Tuesday said first-quarter net profit jumped 51%, as the French bank draws a line under its disastrous foray into Greece, and slims down its investment bank to cope with Europe’s...
View ArticleSarakatsani at MuCEM
The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM- Musée des Civilisations de l`Europe et de la Mediterannée), which will open its doors on June 7 in Marseille, France, will host an...
View ArticleGreek Actress Favourite At Cannes
Adele Exarchopoulos, a young actress of Greek origin, is the favorite for the best leading actress award in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The 19-year old actress arrived at the famed event stealing...
View ArticleLemnos Fava Beans Win Monte Carlo
Fava beans from Lemnos win Monte Carlo! Customers of a very expensive restaurant in the principality are excited with this Greek product and consider it as one of the greatest appetizers served this...
View ArticleAdele Exarchopoulos Awarded Palme d’Or at Cannes
Greek-French actress Adele Exarchopoulos was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2013 Cannes film festival for her role in the film Blue is the Warmest Colour (original title: La Vie d’ Adele). This year...
View ArticleDesmos Library in Paris Celebrates 30 Years
The oldest and the only Greek library in Paris celebrated 30 years of existence on the weekend of June 1-2. Desmos Library (desmos=bond, in Greek) has dedicated its efforts to keep alive and strengthen...
View ArticleFrench Press’s Bleak Headlines for ERT
After the Greek public broadcaster ERT’s shutdown, there has been an unprecedented wave of foreign media solidarity with ERT employees and Greece in general. Following the Franco-German ARTE, which...
View ArticleFrench Clinics Offer Job to Greek Doctors
Vitalia, the second largest private hospital group in France with forty-seven healthcare facilities throughout the country, offers employment opportunities to Greek doctors of every specialty. A number...
View ArticleGreek Diaspora Scientist Detects Elusive Space Wind
Iannis Dandouras, senior scientist at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, detected the elusive space wind, by analyzing data from the European Space Agency’s...
View ArticlePiraeus Shows Off in Marseille Events
As part of the celebrations of Marseille as European Capital of Culture for the year 2013, the Municipality of Piraeus, which has been its sister city since 1984, participated in the events that were...
View ArticleTrierweiler’s Greek Holiday Riles French
France’s First Lady Valerie Trierweiler, who is the partner of President Francois Hollande, has left Greece after an extensive vacation but the French media are buzzing about it. Trierweiler, a...
View ArticleARTE Pays Tribute to Greece
French-German channel ARTE is going to show Greek films and documentaries in a 24-hour special. On Aug. 15, from early in the morning until after midnight, ARTE will travel the German-speaking viewers...
View ArticleFrench Say Mykonos Untouched By Crisis
“Away from the austerity, the feast goes on in Mykonos,” writes the French magazine Paris Match about the famous Island of the Winds that is expected to draw more than a million visitors during...
View ArticleTwo Radio Portraits of Athens on France Culture
The French public radio channel France Culture will broadcast two one-hour radio documentaries by George Archimandritis (of the series Cities-Worlds), devoted to the Greek capital on August 24,...
View ArticleDanone Goes After Chobani
Chobani, a company started in New York state by Turkish-American businessman Hamdi Ulukaya, which has in a few years gained the biggest niche of sales of Greek yogurt in the U.S. will face a challenge...
View ArticleLouvre Asks Donations For Nike Repair
The Louvre Museum hopes to raise another million euros in an appeal for donations it launched to find the funds for the conservation of one of the world’s greatest masterpieces that is housed in the...
View ArticleMajor Tremor Fears Shake South Europe
Potential Historically Unprecedented Earthquakes in Greece, Turkey and Italy, is the title of an article published by the French newspaper Le Monde, which makes an alarming prediction regarding Greece....
View ArticleLouvre Exhibits Antiquities Stolen From Ligortina
They were stolen from Ligortina and today are exhibited at the world famous Louvre Museum. We are talking about the dozens of antiquities stolen in 1896 from Ligotirna and are now exhibited at the...
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