Brussels, Belgium
“Teaching the Greek language is Western European countries” was the title of the 1st international congress organized by the Benelux Education Coordinator’s office, in cooperation with the Brussels Free University’s Modern Greek Studies Department.
Melbourne, Australia
A report published in The Sunday Herald Sun indicates that Chinese businesses are gradually encroaching on what has traditionally been a Greek area in busy Lonsdale Street in Melbourne. In fact, one of the Chinese owners of property in the area has been accused of renting premises only to Chinese tenants and that posters advertising leases are only in Chinese.
Can anybody confirm?
Budapest, Hungary
After 56 years, the Hungarian state approved the reestablishment of the historic Greek-Orthodox Community of Budapest which had been violently shut down by the regime in the past. According to the local Greek community the reopening paves the way for the restoration of the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary in Budapest.
posted on Friday, October 5
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