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Fotopoulou Sees Roma Trapped In Between

Among researchers in a project to study the lives of Roma, also known as gypsies, a venture called Trapped In Between, was a 24-year-old Greek woman, Ioanna Fotopoulou, a  topography engineer and activist. She visited the Roma camps and described the daily living conditions of these people, who struggle to survive. Fotopoulou says that the [...]

MEP Vaidere: Extreme Wealth, Great Poverty in Greece

Inese Vaidere’s report on the impact of crisis on human and social rights was adopted by a large majority in the European Parliament. Vaidere, EPP Group Coordinator in the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament, in her report underlined that in Greece there coexist unimaginable wealth with abject poverty. Vaidere is a Latvian politician, [...]

Greek Gastronomy Travels to Brussels

The Chef’s Club of Greece, accepting the invitation by Georgios Chatzimarkakis, Greek MEP of the Democratic Party, Alliance of Liberals and Democrats of Europe, in Germany, presented Greek gastronomy in the workshop, Increasing Greek Agricultural Productivity by Raising Quality, which was organized on April 10, in the European Parliament in Brussels by  Chatzimarkakis’ office. For [...]

European Award To Mega Sprint Guard

Mega Sprint Guard, a Greek security services and product company, was awarded as one of the top five companies in Europe with the biggest growth and employment rates in Europe. The company is located in Thessaloniki where it has begun its activities in security services and products in 1994, by Tachtaridou Varvara. It has operations [...]

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Citing EU Derision To Greece, MEP Chatzimarkakis Quits

Giorgos Chatzimarkakis says members of his party, a junior coalition partner in Germany’s government, have circulated “extreme” ideas regarding policy toward Greece. Chatzimarkakis, a German European Parliament member of Greek origin, has said he can no longer represent the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) or any German party, for that matter. “The moment I feel [...]

Mount Athos in the Center of Europe

The diverse collection Mount Athos of the internationally renowned painter and architect Efthimios Varlamis, brings mystagogy and universal human values of Athonite life to the center of the EU. The exhibition will be presented on March 25, in the central hall of the European Parliament, on the initiative of the Vice-President of the European Parliament, [...]