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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Hopes that privatised Olympic Airways will be shining example
Commenting on the takeover of state airline Olympic Airways by the Marfín Investment Group (MIG) the daily I Kathimerini writes: "The privatisation of our state airline has very important economic parameters. We will stop spending a million euros per day, … to preserve a failing company. … Since the major Greek brands have collapsed … we now need new national products. … Every developed country needs national 'products' to boost its citizens' self-confidence and sense of security. The Olympic Airways of old … was such a product. The hope is that as a privatised company Olympic Airways regains its former lustre and at the same time becomes an example of how the horizons in this country are not all limited."
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More from the press review on the subject » Corporations, » Greece
The stage as a setting for the revolution
Protestors occupied the building of the Greek National Opera for nine days in the aftermath of the December riots. After the occupation ended last Saturday the daily I Kathimerini writes about its purpose: "We will never find out who exactly occupied the National Opera. … Some of them were artists and others came directly from the December riots. … The enforced turning of the stage into an alternative … venue for film screenings, open meetings, martial arts courses and a 'subversive ballet' performance in Academia Street [in central Athens] has an air of revolutionary romantic about it. … [But] what kind of a democracy is that of the so-called free poets that prevents their [actor] colleagues [through the occupation] from attending their rehearsals?"
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More from the press review on the subject » Stage, » Greece
Open our ears to Israeli artists
I Kathimerini newspaper analyses what consequences the Gaza war could have for Israeli artists: "Sometimes it is inevitable that a country's citizens and artists are judged alongside its political and military leaders. The most likely thing is that we will never see [rock singer] Aviv Gefen in Greece. In any case, cultural exchanges between Greece and Israel already seem very one-sided. We export a lot of Greek music but we import almost nothing. For the most part we are ignorant of the intensity of public debate in Israel and of the different voices striving to be heard. ... If we unconsciously isolate an entire country, we simply prevent these voices from reaching our ears."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Cultural Policy, » Weltanschauung, » Greece, » Israel
The sudden death of a Balkan icon
Dimitri Rigopoulos comments on the death on October 16th of the 26-year-old pop star Tose Proeski from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). "He was a folk hero, a source of pride to the citizens of this young Balkan nation. And this is partly because Proeski was also widely popular in all the other countries of the former Yugoslavia. ... The government declared [October 17th, the day of his funeral], a day of national mourning. … The extent of the shock waves felt by the news media and the manner in which it was handled, reflects an entire society. The young singer, and now his memory, represents the worries, dreams and illusions of the entire nation. … Yes, a state as young as this, established just in 1991, has earned the right to have 26-year-old heroes and to mourn the death of a young man."
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