Building on decades of close ties between Greece and France, the French Institute of Greece is honouring the semester of the Greek Presidency of the Council of the European Union, highlighting the cultural relations between the two countries through a programme unprecedented in terms of extent and quality, entitled “Hellas-France Alliance 2014”. Forty years after the restoration of democracy in Greece, the event’s title alludes to an historic slogan widely heard in Greece during the 1970s.

On the occasion of the Greek Presidency of the EU Council, the European Commission, the Ministry of Tourism of Greece and the Greek National Tourism Organisation organise a High Level Conference on Coastal and Maritime Tourism, as well an Informal Ministerial Meeting at the Acropolis Museum today (10.3.2014).

Ιn crisis-hit Greece, young filmmakers grab attention and provoke discussions at international festivals, creating a tendency that has been described by some as the Greek 'new wave' in cinema. The plethora of emerging artists are seeking personal ways to talk about contemporary Greek reality and a society in transition through movies that often receive international acclaim and find their way into European cinemas.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos will travel to Ukraine tomorrow, Sunday, 2 March 2014.

Initially, Mr. Venizelos will visit Mariupol, where he will meet with representatives of the local Greek Communities, and he will then travel on to Kiev, where he will have meetings with the country’s state and political leadership.