“Almost every rock, every promontory, every river, is haunted by the shadows of the mighty dead,” wrote the English antiquarian Edward Dodwell of his travels in Greece at the beginning of the nineteenth century. During this time, he and the Italian artist Simone Pomardi traversed the country, producing around one thousand watercolors and drawings of the ancient Greek countryside.

Ioannis Ioannidis, a distinguished Greek scientist who excels in the US presented a comprehensive analysis of the danger that threatens Greece of disappearing as a nation because of the lack of meritocracy and the institutionalization of mediocrity.
 

NSRF (National Strategic Reference Framework) funds of 800 million euros are expected to be disbursed for the Greece next week as pre-financing aimed at development projects in the period 2014-2020,according to European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis.