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The Snehta Residency: British art finds a home in Athens, Arts

The Snehta Residency: British art finds a home in Athens

Snehta, a new residency programme for emerging British artists has recently been established in Athens.

By | Arts | Tuesday, 3 July 2012 at 3:00 am

View from Athens: the Greek Crisis as Greek Tragedy, Notebook

View from Athens: the Greek Crisis as Greek Tragedy

Last week I saw a production of Sophocles’ Antigone at the National Theatre in London and it struck me that the play echoed dangerously in today’s Greece, especially if thought through Hegel’s reading of the play.

By | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 18 June 2012 at 10:12 am

The myths surrounding the EU and China, Eagle Eye

The myths surrounding the EU and China

This year’s European Union-China summit in Tianjin has been postponed. But when it does take place, the summit will take place against a backdrop of worries about the euro, violent protests on the streets of Athens, hotly disputed EU airfare taxes, and calls for labour strikes in Portugal. While such events might seem unrelated to the summit, they feed into three myths about EU-China relations that should form the basis of discussions at the summit in Tianjin.

By | Eagle Eye | Wednesday, 26 October 2011 at 11:17 am

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