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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. ...

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...