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SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance had also requested a one-on-one debate between its leader Alexis Tsipras and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis but it was rejected by the other party representatives. Party leaders will be called to answer questions grouped into six thematic sections: economy, development and jobs; foreign policy and defense; State, institutions and transparency; health, education and the social state; environment and energy; and youth. The debate will be held ahead of the June 25 runoff elections, at the premises of national broadcaster ERT. Questions will be asked by 6 journalists and the debate will be moderated by journalist Giorgos Kouvaras, who moderated the May 10th debate, ahead of the May 21st ballot.

The map purports that the Greek islands of Chios, Samos, Ikaria, Kos, Ios, Amorgos and Rhodes voted for Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People’s Party in Sunday’s presidential election in the neighboring State. Diplomatic sources in Athens said that, on the instructions of Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, Ambassador Dimitrios Zevelakis wrote to the newspaper, calling on it to remove the infographic, which gave Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu as its source. Le Monde is understood to have removed the map in question from its website.

The presentation of the campaign was held on Thursday at the GNTO’s press hall in the presence of Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias, GNTO President Angela Gerekou, GNTO Secretary-General Dimitris Fragakis and representatives from Greece’s tourism sector in the context of the assessment of the organization’s work in the 2019-2023 period. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/PlCPx9yETCo

Liverpool is hosting on behalf of Ukraine, which won the contest last with Kalush Orchestra’s “Stefania.” Ukraine was unable to stage the event this year, as the winner usually does, because of Russia’s invasion. Britain, which came second, is promising to combine the creativity of Ukraine and the UK under the banner “United by Music.”   Who will compete? There are 37 countries taking part with 31 competing in two semi-finals and 10 going through to the Grand Final. Ukraine, as the previous winner, automatically progresses to the Grand Final, along with the “big five,” comprising the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. Who is Greece’s entry   Victor Vernicos who will perform his original song “What They Say” in the second semi-final on Thursday. Aged 16, local Instagram sensation Vernicos is the youngest-ever contestant to represent Greece at the competition. When are the semi-finals? Tuesday, May 9 and Thursday, May 11 at 10 p.m. (Greek time). Who competes in semi-final one? Norway, Malta, Serbia, Latvia, Portugal, Ireland, Croatia, Switzerland, Israel, Moldova, Sweden, Azerbaijan, Czechia, Netherlands, Finland Who competes in semi-final two? Denmark, Armenia, Romania, Estonia, Belgium, Cyprus, Iceland, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, Georgia, San Marino, Austria, Albania, Lithuania, Australia When is the grand final? Saturday, May 13 at 10 p.m. (Greek time). Who competes in the grand final? Previous winner Ukraine, host United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain, plus the top 10 from each semi-final How does the voting work? Viewers at home will determine the outcome of the two semi-finals. Viewers and professional juries vote in the Grand Final. Semi-final 1: viewers in the 15 countries taking part are eligible to vote, alongside France, Germany, and Italy. Semi-final 2: Viewers in the 16 countries taking part are eligible to vote, alongside Spain, Ukraine, and the UK. In a new development, viewers from non-participating countries around the world will also be able to vote, and will have the weight of one additional voting country. Grand Final: Juries from all 37 countries allocate points 1-8, 10 and 12 to 10 acts, excluding their own country, based on performances in the second dress reversal on Friday. The audience votes from each country, based on the live Grand Final, are used to allocate the same scale of points, with the rest of the world counting for one additional country. A total of 2,146 points are available from the juries are and 2,204 from the audience votes. Who will host the grand final? Graham Norton, the host of an eponymous chat show on BBC television and Britain’s usual Eurovision commenter. Alesha Dixon, a British television personality and pop singer. Julia Sanina, front woman of Ukrainian rock band The Hardkiss. Hanna Waddingham, a star of musical theatre and television.

A historical documentary by Maria Iliou and a photographic exhibition. What was Athens like after the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896, and until 1922? Why did Athenians go to the front for so many wars, like the war of 1897, the Balkan wars of 1912-1913, World War I in 1917 and the Asia Minor campaign from 1919 to 1922? How was Athens transformed from the era of the Belle Epoque to the Athens of the Great Idea and the National Schism, and how was the city transformed, in September 1922? Through widely unknown archival visual material from three continents, photographs and film footage discovered and preserved in America, Australia and Europe, director Maria Iliou, historical consultant Alexandros Kitroef and their collaborators once again weave a fascinating story, told in a documentary film and an accompanying photographic exhibition at the Benaki Museum of Hellenic Culture, at 1 Koumbari Street. The year 1896, following the first modern Olympic Games, was defined by a widespread sense of optimism in Athens, a rather insignificant city of just 130,000. It was a time when “little Greece” began cultivating aspirations of victory, reaching out to realize the Great Idea by reclaiming the territories of the Byzantine Empire – including Constantinople, the center of Hellenism. The overwhelming majority of Greeks believed the plan to be feasible, with hundreds of volunteers going off to fight in the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, explains Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, pre-eminent authority on Greek history and philhellene, in the opening scene of a new documentary by Maria Iliou. Lasting just one month and ending in Greece’s defeat, the campaign also became known as “Black 97” and the “Unfortunate War.” In “Athens and the Great Idea 1896-1922,”  the renowned filmmaker, her historical adviser Alexander Kitroeff, professor of history at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and the rest of her team pick up the thread of the narrative at the revival of the Olympic Games and the newfound confidence of the Greeks, who became increasingly convinced that the ancient Greek spirit and the Byzantine tradition would be key to unlocking the vision of “Greater Greece.” Iliou spent 20 years gathering the material for this project. “The majority of the films and photographs are very rare indeed and quite intoxicating; they don’t just transmit information, but stir all sorts of thoughts and emotions,” says Iliou, whose previous work includes the critically acclaimed “The Journey: The Greek American Dream” (2007), “Smyrna, the Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City – 1900-1922” (2012) and “From Both Sides of the Aegean, 1922-1924” (2012). With Roderick Beaton (Professor Emeritus at the Korais Chair at King's College and Chairman of the Board of the British School of Athens), Katherine Fleming (New York University), Nikos Vatopoulos (Kathimerini Newspaper), Christina Koulouri (Panteion University), Alexandros Kitroef (Haverford College), Jim Wright (American School of Classical Studies), Marina Lambraki Plaka (former Director of the National Gallery), Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith (King's College, London), while Despina Geroulanou and Philip Mazarakis-Ainian tell family stories from the National Schism. To find out more about the concept and visitor information, log on to https://www.benaki.org/index.php?option=com_events&view=event&id=1019492&lang=en.

Cities, computers, and communities all feature in an exhibition presented across two episodes. With material from the Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives and with new research into contemporary Athens, the exhibition traces how the postwar and our contemporary periods are linked through ideas about data, space, and people. The exhibition examines one of the most pressing and transformational conditions of the last half century—the overlapping and intertwining of cities, people, and information systems. The exhibition shows this in two episodes. The first covers the prescient use of computers in the 1960s by the Greek architect and internationally celebrated planner of cities, Constantinos A. Doxiadis through the work of DACC—the Doxiadis Associates Computer Center. The second episode traces these computational practices to present day Athens, with new research into the physical form, technical administration, and territorial spread of city and state border management systems. Each episode pivots around a population group and a form of information collection. In the 1960s, Doxiadis Associates ran The Human Community, a DACC-assisted study of Athenian residents that gauged their adaptation to the growth and pace of the postwar city. The exhibition includes The New Human Community, a critical restaging of Doxiadis’ survey conducted with recently arrived residents and refugees. The Machine at the Heart of Man: Constantinos Doxiadis’ Informational Modernism tracks how our contemporary and postwar periods are linked through techniques of data extraction and accumulation. In the exhibition, these two episodes chart Greece’s emerging informational geography, locating its boundaries, borders, and the data subjects they engender. With its mainframe UNIVAC and spinning tape drives, DACC was a startling venture for an architecture office in the 1960s. Doxiadis belonged to a cohort of international architects and intellectuals appraising the implications of new digital technologies for the future of cities. Unlike his peers, who often considered this impact abstractly or theoretically, the techniques and products of computation were deeply integrated into Doxiadis’ practice. Spanning early analog data collection to later urban computation, the exhibition recasts Doxiadis’ practice through informational processes and automation, placing it within the emerging postindustrial logics of the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition also puts the Doxiadis Associates Computer Center in communication with our current debates on computation and community. For Doxiadis, community was an ideal of social integration and resident satisfaction. It was also a dynamic measure of urban scale seen via neighborhood boundaries made volatile by postwar upheaval and migration. For many residents of contemporary Athens, these local boundaries have multiplied and expanded to encompass state borders and their control systems. While The Human Community and DACC mark a pivotal early moment in the historical formation and articulation of computational urbanism, the information extraction technologies that appear at and through this contemporary border complex are its most current elaboration.   Dates 28.01 —26.02.2023 Wednesday - Sunday 18:00 - 23:00 Exhibition Hall -1 Tickets Free admission Venue Onassis Stegi To find out more about the concept and visitor information, log on to https://www.onassis.org/whats-on/constantinos-doxiadis-human-communities.

The bill, which had been submitted by the Hellenic Culture Ministry, was approved by New Democracy, SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance and PASOK-KINAL. The Communist Party of Greece, Greek Solution and MeRA25 voted 'present' in proceedings.

- Disclosure - With the war in Ukraine and Russian President Vladimir Putin's more or less clear threats, the possibility of a nuclear war, or at least a tactical nuclear strike, is back in the public debate as never before in decades. "We were faced with the prospect of an Apocalypse from Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" in 1962, summed up US President Joe Biden in early October. Against Moscow, the nuclear-armed powers are forced to seriously question their deterrence capability and possible response. - Certification - The blue tick that authenticates the owner of a Twitter account speaks for itself of the cacophony that has dominated the social network since it was acquired in late October for $44 billion by billionaire Elon Musk. After launching a paid version of profile authentication, the social network is forced to suspend the new system after just 2 days: due to a lack of identity verification, many accounts falsely appear to belong to celebrities or big businesses, from basketball player LeBron James to Nintendo. At the end of November comes a new announcement: Twitter will soon release gray, gold and blue indicators to distinguish the different kinds of verified accounts on the platform. - "Woman, Life, Freedom" - The slogan of protesters in Iran, which has become one of the symbols of the protest movement that erupted after the death of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish Mahsha Amini on September 16, three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police for not wearing the right dress her headscarf, for violating the Islamic Republic's strict dress code. This can be heard in the almost daily protests that have been very violently suppressed since Amini's death, mentioned in the messages of support on social media, in Iran and abroad, and even written on a banner in the stadium at the first Iranian football match in the World Cup. - White glue - Many Chinese have been expressing their opposition to the government and its strict "zero COVID-19" policy since late November, inventing ways to bypass censorship and show their anger and support at the protests. In several cities, including Beijing, protesters are holding up white sticky notes of A4 paper in solidarity, referring to the lack of freedom of expression in China. Others also leave blank squares on their WeChat profile. - London Bridge - From the announcement of death to the funeral protocol and the circumstances of her successor's recovery to the throne, Operation London Bridge provides a step-by-step account of the events following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8th at the age of 96, after 70 years on the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Although it has been set up in the finest detail for years and has been revised frequently, the need to make last-minute adjustments has arisen as the Queen breathed her last in Scotland, far from the British capital. - "Losses and Damages" - After a year that has sadly shown the acceleration of the devastating effects of global warming, the UN climate conference finally reaches an agreement, described as "historic", to create a fund intended to compensate for climate "losses". and damage', which the poorest countries are already experiencing. This measure, which is adopted almost overnight, while it is not even on the agenda of COP27 -- a conference with an otherwise rather contradictory report -- is a request for time by the poorest countries. Mainly afraid of admitting any legal responsibility, the rich countries, which historically emit the largest amount of greenhouse gases, have rejected it for years.   - Post-fascist - A century after Benito Mussolini came to power, the victory of the far-right "Brothers of Italy" party in parliamentary elections in late September allowed its leader, Giorgia Meloni, to become Italy's first female prime minister. The leader of the "post-fascist" party has not stopped trying to reassure people since her election. "I have never had sympathy or closeness to anti-democratic regimes. For any regime, including fascism," emphasizes the one who in her youth was an admirer of Mussolini.   - "Roe v. Wade" - In a historic twist, the ultra-conservative US Supreme Court in June is burying the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision, which guaranteed American women's right to abortion but had never been embraced by the religious right. His decision ushers the US into a post-Roe v. Wade world, where each state is free to approve or disapprove voluntary pregnancy terminations on its own soil. Some fifteen have banned them, while epic political and legal battles are underway elsewhere, a testament to the passions that the abortion issue still stirs in the country. The results of the recent midterm elections in the US for Congress, however, give the opportunity for many supporters of the right to abortion to rejoice in many victories, such as the one in the very conservative state of Kentucky, where voters rejected in a referendum an anti-rights proposal in abortion.   - Saving - Lower the heating, wear warm clothes, limit the use of electrical appliances...: in the midst of an energy crisis and in the context of the war in Ukraine and the desire to wean ourselves off Russian natural gas, calls to save energy are multiplying, especially in Europe. Aimed at avoiding outages and breakdowns and also part of the fight against climate change, this much-hyped savings is also for many consumers an economic necessity in many countries hit hard by inflation.   - Tomato soup - Tomato soup is thrown at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London, mashed potatoes at Claude Monet's "Veils" near Berlin, flour in a BMW, Andy Warhol's work in Milan...: the end of the year is marked by protest actions by environmental activists aimed at artworks to raise public awareness of climate change. The artworks, which are covered by protective glass -- to which other activists stick their hands, as happened with Johannes Vermeer's famous painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" -- are not damaged. These and other actions by these activists, such as stopping sports matches or blocking roads, are aimed at re-heating the climate debate, even at the risk of provoking reactions from part of the public opinion.

According to the publication, the agreement will provide for a part of the Sculptures to be sent from the British Museum to Athens on a rotating basis in stages. In return, the Acropolis Museum could lend other objects to the British Museum while Britain could also get plaster casts of the Parthenon Sculptures. Bloomberg: Greece and Britain close to an agreement Earlier, the whole issue of an agreement regarding the Parthenon Sculptures between the British Museum and the Acropolis Museum had been shaken by the Bloomberg report. British media reported that the 2 Museums were close to an agreement that would see the Parthenon Marbles returned to Greece as part of a cultural exchange, ending a dispute over the historic objects dating back to the 1800s. It is recalled that on December 3rd, 2022, the British Guardian revealed that Athens and London were in preliminary talks about the Parthenon Sculptures. Read about: Guardian: Greece in preliminary talks with British Museum over Parthenon Marbles The latest Bloomberg report, citing sources familiar with the matter who declined to be named because the deal has not been formalized, said the deal would see a portion of the marbles sent to Athens on a rotating basis over a number of years. In return, other objects would be effectively loaned to the London museum, while Britain could also receive plaster casts of the Parthenon Sculptures. According to the same sources, intensive discussions continue and the agreement has not yet been finalized, while it is noted that the logistical infrastructure for moving the projects is also extremely complicated. An Athens-London deal on the Parthenon Sculptures, the report notes, would resolve a dispute that has plagued Anglo-Greek relations since the founding of modern Greece in 1832 and which has even threatened to add tension to the UK's already complicated Brexit negotiations. with the European Union. The Parthenon Sculptures - the publication states - are a collection of ancient objects that were transferred from the Acropolis to Athens at the beginning of the 19th Century by Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Elgin "removed" - as noted in the publication - the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon under controversial circumstances and transported them to Britain. Greek governments have stepped up calls for their return in recent decades, in a long-running political and diplomatic dispute.  

In the video "The Great Return of Greek Tourism" it is highlighted that revenues for 2022 are estimated to reach 18 billion Euros, with markets such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany recording increases of +21.3%, +17.6% and +7.2% respectively compared to 2019. Slogans like "All year round destination" and "What is better than a weekend? A GREEKend" were almong our favorites in the clip. The video is available at: https://youtu.be/A0KR_29Ehqc.

The following year, Yusra raced in the 100-meter freestyle at Rio 2016 as part of the first ever Refugee Olympic Team. On the other hand, in 2018, Sarah wound up in a maximum-security prison in the Hellenic capital, charged with spying, human smuggling, and belonging to a criminal organization. Their story, "The Swimmers", is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Sally El Hosaini from a screenplay that she co-wrote with Jack Thorne. The film stars Nathalie Issa, Manal Issa, Ahmed Malek, Matthias Schweighöfer, Ali Suliman, Kinda Alloush, James Krishna Floyd, and Elmi Rashid Elmi. The movie had its world premiere at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th, 2022, and was released in select cinemas on November 11th, 2022. As of today, Wednesday,  November 23rd, 2022, the film will be available to the public on Netflix.

One of the most common discussions that happen when it comes to children is about boundaries. Boundaries have received both positive and negative connotations and this is mainly due to the fact that boundaries are often associated with consequences, punishments, strictness and authoritarianism. Why are boundaries important? They concern our survival within social groups, our self-determination, our personal balance but also our safety and physical integrity and health. In this seminar for parents we open the discussion about when we start setting limits, how we communicate them, how they affect the character and behavior of the child.