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Angela Merkel avoids Controversy

This piece of news is from a Finnish news website called ''Helsingin Sanomat'' and was posted on April 12. 2019 https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006069077.html The german Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel had decided to renovate her office. This included taking two paintings down.These two paintings happened to be by Emil Nolden (1867–1951), a German expressionist painter . At first glance it may just be because of  aesthetic reasons but then the second reason might be because of Nolden was discovered to have had some anti-semitic thoughts. Anti-semitism meaning the discrimination or hatred towards Jewish people. This luckily didn’t spark any serious controversy. The reason these paintings were taken down might have something to do with the fact that an art gallery in Germany wished to have only one of the paintings, but when Chancellor Merkel discovered the slightly dark origin of the paintings, she decided to send both of them to the gallery. App

Manfred Weber's Intent

 This piece of news is from a Finnish news website called ''Helsingin Sanomat''  and it was posted on April 24. 2019  https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006082033.html The German candidate to be the president of the EU Commission, Manfred Weber, has said that if he were to be elected, he would stop the construction of the Stream 2 gas pipeline near Russia, most likely because he thinks the EU should not rely on Russian gas. Weber has said that he would stop at nothing to be able to stop the construction of the gas pipeline, whatever law necessary. Weber has also said that he is not the candidate of Germany, but the EPP. Germany is currently split on this decision. Some say that the construction of the Stream 2 gas pipeline would be extremely important for Germany’s ability to produce energy. Germany will be giving up the use of coal and nuclear material, so they need to replace the lost power sources with something, and it would the Russian gas. But the people

Spanish ghost towns

The Spanishe are seling their countryside villages to foreigners for  even under 100 000 euros.People who buy these villages are mostly British, French and Belgian but the number of Spanish buyers has gone up lately.   The villages are sold because people are moving to big cities, which erodes the services in the countrysides even further. The low birth rate makes things  even worse , the Spanish fertility rate in 2017 was 1.7, the second lowest in Europe. https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006053763.html  

Dictator Francisco Franco

   The former  Spanish dictator Francisco’s l remains will be moved away from  their current grave in June the Spanish government has announced.  Franco’s remains will be reburied with a simple ceremony near Madrid . There won’t be a big audience or any media present. : Francisco Franco lived in 1892-1975. He was a Spanish general who was Commander-in-Chief of nationalist armies. His current grave is a grandiose memorial Franco’s family  are strongly against  the move and will take legal action to prevent it. The general opinion in Spain is divided on the matter. The decision about whether to go ahead with the reburial will be taken by the new Spanish government. https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006036908.html

IN ATHENS SOME DO BLACK METAL YOGA

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This is an Article from vice.gr, pupbilshed on the 5th of March 2018. It's about a black metal course that took place in Athens. A black metal yoga course was started in Athens by   Manos Nomikos.  The hole thing came about when Manos was on Facebook trying to figure out how to create an event. As an experiment he posted "Black Metal Yoga in the historic center of Athens". He wrote that the participation was free and those who wanted to take part just had to go  to  the appointment given at Aghia Irini Square, near Monastiraki. Manos himself said that he had no intention of doing such an event and that the hole thing was just an experiment to see how events worked on facebook. The next day, He say that more than  1,500 people had said they would come and another 3,500 people were interested.   Seeing all the interest in his project, he decided to do it for real. He got in contact with Niki Haya, a yoga instructor and  started organizing it.  After a few months

The Most Exiting Greek Archaeological Discoveries of 2018

This is an article by www.greece-is.com published on the 8th of January 2018 Ancient Greek Archaeological discoveries of 2018 The past year has given us an abundance of new finds in Greek archaeology.  Greek and foreign archaeologists have unearthed many new discoveries on land and at sea, at  long-standing excavations at  Santorini , ancient Corinth,  Evia , Vergina and other major centers of the ancient Greek  wold. A rchaeologists have found a clay tablet dated to the 3 rd  Century AD inscribed with thirteen verses of Homer’s Odyssey at ancient Olympia. This clay inscription is the oldest-known surviving  such inscription  of the Odyssey to date. An other very exiting find is an almost fully intact ancient Greek vessel  from ca. 500 BC .  This   2,400-year-old wreck  was found at the bottom of the black sea  during a seabed-survey using deep-water cameras . It has been preserved thanks to a deep low oxygen environment. This 23 m-long  vessel  has helped archaeologi

Greece populist party

In Greece the populist party has grown  to accountability The leftwing populist party Syriza took responsibility and fixed Greek’s course. Now parliamentary elections are approaching and Syriza is pinched. In 2015 during the parliamentary elections Finland’s political conversation was heated by Greece, as financial assistance was provided to the country.   Especially the True Finns party demanded that Finnish money must stay in Finland. When the party ended up in the government, Finland’s government gave permission to start negotiations that eventually led to third support package’s approval. Greece will have  parliamentary elections in October. The right-wing New Democracy Party has gone past Syriza in the surveys. Syriza’s merit list is considerable after the approval of the third support packages.   Syriza has fulfilled the l requirements list given with the the support comendably and disengaged from the support program and applied for a loan from the market.