‘A landmark cultural partnership’
Commenting on recent developments surrounding the Parthenon Sculptures, Stephen Fry, the acclaimed British actor and member of the Parthenon Project’s Advisory Board, said the following.
Unevaluated
The process of performance evaluation has been announced, legislated, and failed so many times in practice that the conviction is solidifying the idea that the public sector is inherently incapable of distinguishing and rewarding its outstanding performers.
King Charles raises eyebrows with his tie choice amid UK-Greece dispute
Britain’s King Charles wore a tie bearing the colours and symbols of the Greek national flag to a climate conference on Friday, days after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak snubbed his Greek peer Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a row over the Parthenon Sculptures.
Poros to become third ‘green’ island, says Mitsotakis
Poros will become the third “green” island under the government’s GR-eco Islands national initiative, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitostakis has announced at the COP28 conference in Dubai. The transformation of the island would take place in collaboration with United Arab Emirates state-owned green energy company Masdar, he added.
Schoolboy (14) arrested for stabbing fellow student
Police in Messenia, in the southern Peloponnese, arrested a 14-year-old schoolboy on Friday after he stabbed a fellow student with a pocket knife in the school yard. Police were called to the school after teachers reported that the 3rd grade middle school student had got into a row with another student for an unknown reason.
Shampoo from coffee grounds
Greek startup Coffe-eco is developing cosmetics and packaging (containers) from espresso grounds, having discovered an extraction method that utilizes the antioxidant actions and nutrients of many’s people’s favorite daily drink.
UK’s King Charles urges rapid environmental repair in COP28 speech
Britain’s King Charles has said the world was “dreadfully far off track” on addressing climate change and that the global economy would be in peril unless the environment was rapidly repaired.
Sunak denies having ‘hissy fit’ over Parthenon Sculptures
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has denied having a “hissy fit” over his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ comments on the Parthenon Sculptures, adding that the marbles, as they were “acquired legally at the time,” cannot be returned to Greece “as a matter of law.”