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The recipe for the magic filter of happiness is simple: economic prosperity, political freedom, equality. The streets of Denmark are full of the happiest persons on earth. According to the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation, Danes are the unquestionable champions of happiness.  Money does not buy happiness… This […]

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Harvard University, the most famous educational institution in the United States, has a new base in the historic city of Nafplion in Greece. It is a modern Centre for Hellenic Studies, which constitutes Harvard University’s first facility for international programs in continental Europe.
The site carries an immense symbolic weight, as Nafplion was the first capital […]

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To be a working mother or not to be?

  
The image is a familiar one. “I wake up early in the morning, I prepare the breakfast for my family, I get the children ready to school, pack their lunches, go to work and after a tiring day, I try to devote as much time as I […]

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Kythnos, Cyclades

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3,500 years after the legendary Argo, which according to myth carried Jason and the Argonauts on their heroic quest for the Golden Fleece in Colchis, an exact relpica of the historic trireme sets sail from Volos on a 60 day trip to Venice.

(Reuters)
The modern-day Argo, with 50 oarsmen aboard, is a reconstruction of an ancient […]

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Three «thunderous» NO, in three years…First the French, next the Dutch and now bad luck comes in threes for the European Union which is sinking once again in the vicious cycle of introversion. Brussels is watching the developments pass them by without being able to react… After the Irish blow to the Lisbon Treaty, Friday, 13th […]

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Before the devastating earthquake in Peloponnesus, I was relaxing in a beautiful island near Athens, for a short week-end!!I would like to share with you these optimistic and colourful photos!

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The unprecedented in intensity and duration earthquake of 6,5 Richter, 205 kilometres westwards of Athens, caused terror and panic, while it woke up memories of the deadly earthquake of Athens in 1999. Two people dead, dozens wounded in the prefectures of Achaia and Ilia in Peloponnesus that has not yet recovered from last summers’ devastating […]

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My 3 hours ordeal in Cannes started, just a few seconds after Madonna´s entry in the Cannes festival’s press centre. You see my colleague from greek tv had given me his bag to check. A very precious bag indeed, with more than 3000 euros, 6 credit cards, sound recorders, videocassettes, personal belongings, etc, […]

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They turn their arrows in the sky, against “the unknown monster”…. For Amazon Indians, the helicopter resembles more like an enormous iron bird. In the clearing of the jungle, we can discern two men warriors, who have covered their body with red colour. The third figure, dyed in black, watches very […]

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