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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

 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

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  

   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

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

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

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.

Greece demands reparations from Germany for the  nazi occupation - Germany: “The matter is closed”                                          According to Greek Parliament Germany owes them over 300 billion euros. The Parliament decided on the matter yesterday. Both the government and the opposition supported the decision. This is the first time that the Greek Parliament has officially taken the reparations case under consideration. The Greek Kathimerini newspaper lists  the forced loan germany took from Greece in 1942, the theft of archaeological treasures, the material damage suffered by the Nazi victims, and the suffering of the families of Nazi victims among the damages to be compensated for. Nazis caused a famine  in Greek where over 100 000 people died. Moreover, the  nazis took over 50 000 Jews from Greece to the Auschwitzs concentration camp. According to the Parliament's decision, Greece should use “all the necessary diplomatic and legal means” to rece

Even the smallest filma and other EU countries start producing feta, the chef is afraid The amount of cheese does not matter to the factory as much as the fact that feta is traditionally handcrafted. It means high production costs, but we want to keep our manufacturing process. They separate us from other producers, says Kostarelos. Cheese dairies differ not only in the mechanization of production but also in the maturity of feta. The majority of the feta in the Kostarelos factory matures in wooden barrels for a long time, even 12-18 months. It is a second option, a method that is more demanding in metal canisters. The most challenging production stage is until the cheese precipitates. Feta has an EU name protection, which means that cheese called feta must not be manufactured in other EU countries or in third countries with which the EU has a trade agreement. who have increased the use of imported milk. Finnish holiday makers already recognize the right feta. A

Zinedine Zidane will come back to coach the football team Real Madrid. The contract is made for three years. Real Madrid's season has been weak. Zidane  trained the team between  2016-2018 and lead them to a Spain championship  and three Champions league first places. The former head coach Santiago Solar has been offered a chance to continue with  other assignments in the team. https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000006031584.html

Las Fallas is one of the biggest festivals in Spain, it takes place in mid-March in Valencia.  At this festival there are different rituals. The most important part are the Fallas which are huge, colorful and peculiar statues all around the city. With these statues people want to make fun of the rulers and authorities. At the end of the festival all the statues are  burned and the whole city is full of fire and ash. Another ritual is a pyroshow (mascleta). It happens every day at the same time in the same place. It takes about 10 minutes and during it people shoot loud fireworks and bangers into the air. The noise is ear-splitting. https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000006028247.html

According to an international migrant organization over 200 people has died this year while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. RESTORED child's body rinsed to the beach on Sunday in Lesbos Island, Greece. According to the local news agency, the child was likely to have been on Thursday in a boat that sailed near the island of Samos and transported immigrants who had attempted to cross Greece from the sea to Turkey. According to AFP, a total of three people were killed in the accident, two of them children. In Lesbos, the deceased litter is supposed to be one of the missing children from the boat crash. The persecution was discovered by local people from Vatera Beach. It is thought to be a girl of about nine years old. The discoverers reported the incident to the Coast Guard, which carried the deceased to the local hospital for autopsy. According to IOM, at least 229 people have died in the Mediterranean this year. The majority of those who have died have be

This piece of news is from Finland and media called "Helsingin Sanomat". It was published 11.3.2019. https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000006030729.html A German teacher from Tampere, Seija Sihvo, made an investigation about differences between Finnish and German schools. She interviewed 15-16 year-old-students and their teachers from Germany and Finland. There were 100 students from Finland and 200 from Germany. Also there were 40 teachers. The Finnish students were from schools in Tampere. The German students were from two different types of schools, Hauptschule and Gymnasium. In Germany students are divided into groups of strong, mediocre and weak students depending their grades starting from the fifth grade. But the German students are usually very happy with their own placing different types of schools. For Finnish students it seems really odd that German students are separated in different types of schools depending their grades. Sihvo's investigation shows one thi

This piece of news is from Finland and media called "Helsingin Sanomat". It was published 8.3.2019. https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000006027285.html This year Germany is celebrating the centennial of women's right to vote, although in Finland it was celebrated already in 2006. Schools, stores and offices are closed on Friday because of the Women's Day. For the first time it's a day off in Berlin. But nurses have to go to work. Jenny Funke-Kaiser says that many nurses would like to have a day off, but instead they must go to work to take care of patients. The day is harder than usual because kindergartens are closed. Activists are organizing a protest already a day before Women's Day, so that those who have to work on Friday can show their opinions too. In Berlin there is less day offs on weekdays than in other German states. Berlin's politicians wanted to level the situation. Iris Spranger wanted to get the Women's Day free. Spranger wants more wo