blogs.independent.co.uk| » Athens http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 The Snehta Residency: British art finds a home in Athens http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/03/the-snehta-residency-british-art-finds-a-home-in-athens/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/03/the-snehta-residency-british-art-finds-a-home-in-athens/#comments Tue, 03 Jul 2012 02:00:49 +0000 Rachael Cloughton http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25866 Snehta, a new residency programme for emerging British artists has recently been established in Athens. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/03/the-snehta-residency-british-art-finds-a-home-in-athens/feed/ 1 View from Athens: the Greek Crisis as Greek Tragedy http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/view-from-athens-the-greek-crisis-as-greek-tragedy/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/view-from-athens-the-greek-crisis-as-greek-tragedy/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:12:56 +0000 Alexis Papazoglou http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25386 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.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/18/view-from-athens-the-greek-crisis-as-greek-tragedy/feed/ 10 The myths surrounding the EU and China http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/26/the-myths-surrounding-the-eu-and-china/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/26/the-myths-surrounding-the-eu-and-china/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:17:54 +0000 Yaping Wang http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=17924 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.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/10/26/the-myths-surrounding-the-eu-and-china/feed/ 7