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Modern Greek StudiesAssociation Symposium 2017
  The 25thSymposium of the US-based Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) is scheduled to take placeNovember 2-5, 2017, in Stockton University, New Jersey, US. The Symposium will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center forHellenic Studies at Stockton University. Professors David Roessel and Tom Papademetriou, Director of the Center, will beco-chairing the Local Arrangements Committee.
 The Symposium keynoteaddress, entitled “Globalization and the return to the national: Perspectives on Greece’s ongoing crisis,” will be deliveredby Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies,European University Institute.

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Subject: Greek News Agenda Newsletter (3.03): 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival | Nicolas Leron on Europe's need for a Democratic Leap | Ioannis Pappos on a Fictional Account of the Business World
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 ​ March, Monday6 2017
​ GREEK NEWS AGENDA NEWSLETTER
​ ​ Asnapshot of current affairs and issues related to Greece that do  not always find their way to other  English-language online media.

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19th ThessalonikiDocumentary Festival | What is documentary today?
 
There is a worldwide debate about documentaries. The genre keeps expanding and new forms emerge. It is indeed difficult to classify documentary filmsor measure their impact, because they evolve as rapidly as their driving force: reality itself. So, what is documentary today? The answer lies in thefilms. The 19th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (3-12 March, 2017) invites us to talk about documentaries and watch someof the most powerful offerings of the latest international documentary production that will be screened in this year’s edition.
 Thessaloniki DocumentaryFestival is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the best documentary festivals in Europe and it was recently ranked 2nd inLondon's Raindance Film Festival top10 documentary film festivals from all over the world list. Its main program focuses ondocumentaries that explore the social and cultural developments in the world. The festival's side events host exhibitions, master classes,round-table discussions, publications, concerts and parties.

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Quo Vadis Europa? |Nicolas Leron on the need for a democratic leap
  NicolasLeron is associate researcher at the Center of European Studies for Political Science, is president of thethink tank EuroCité and president of the site of critics Nonfiction. He has just published "La Doubledémocratie. Une Europe politique pour la croissance" (Double Democracy. A Political Europe for Growth), co-written witheconomist Michel Aglietta.

He spoke to our sister publication Grèce Hebdo on the concept of "double democracy", the rupture betweensovereignty and the single currency and Europe's to take a democratic and budgetary leapforwards in order to become a fully-fledged democratic power.
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Reading Greece:Ioannis Pappos on a Fictional Account of the Business World and the American Political Order
 
IoannisPappos is a management consultant and writer from Pelio, Greece. He is a graduate of Stanford University and INSEAD Business School, and hasworked in both the U.S. and Europe. He contributes to blogs and magazines. Hotel Living [HarperCollins Publishers, 2015](finalist for Lambda and Edmund White Debut Fiction awards) is his first novel. He lives in New York City.
 Ioannis Pappos spoke toReading Greece about the story behind Hotel Living noting that it is “a story of excess and unhappiness, part of theculture of the previous decade in New York City and other megatowns” where the book is plotted out. Asked about how the American societyhas changed since the book was written, he comments that although “the States were an example of common commitments and efforts; not anexample of isolation”, “the last decades had some detours” and “right now we are at the brink of the mostdangerous political order I have witnessed in a democratic society, both internally and externally”.
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Modern Greek StudiesAssociation Symposium 2017
  The 25thSymposium of the US-based Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) is scheduled to take placeNovember 2-5, 2017, in Stockton University, New Jersey, US. The Symposium will be hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center forHellenic Studies at Stockton University. Professors David Roessel and Tom Papademetriou, Director of the Center, will beco-chairing the Local Arrangements Committee.
 The Symposium keynoteaddress, entitled “Globalization and the return to the national: Perspectives on Greece’s ongoing crisis,” will be deliveredby Anna Triandafyllidou, Professor at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies,European University Institute.

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ILO Report:Collective bargaining is a fundamental right as well as a prerequisite for economic growth
 
A two-day conference on "Inequalities and the world of work: What role for industrial relations and social dialogue?" took placein Brussels (23-24.2.2017) to discuss key factors leading to rising inequalities in EU-Member States. The conference, organized by the InternationalLabour Organization (ILO) and the European Commission (EC) investigated the possible role of social dialogue and social partners, and more generallyof industrial relations, in reducing inequalities in the world of work. 
 As the new ILO report presented at the conference demonstrates, labourmarket policies and the industrial relations systems underpinning collective bargaining have a key influence on the level of inequalities observed inEU Member States.   Readmore

 

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“Three-generation” Greek Golden Visa programme for real estate investors in Greece 
  Since 2014, Greece hasintroduced “Greece-My Residence” a very favourable golden visa programme which applies to all non-EU citizens whopurchase a property in Greece (law 4251/2014). According to the latest official report, issued by the Minitstry of Migration Policy, Chinese citizensexploited more than everyone else the "Greek Golden Visa" program which offers residency permits to third country citizens and theirfamilies when investing more than 250,000 euros on real estate properties or other investment activity in Greece. By January 31, 2017, a total of1,573 residency permits have been offered to real estate investors, of which 664 from China, 348 from Russia, 77 from Egypt, 73 from Lebanon and 67from Ukraine.
 In 2015, the Greek parliamentapproved the new immigration law (law 4332/2015) that introduces more benefits to investors of real estate with value more than 250,000 euros.According to that law: as long as the investors hold the ownership of the property, the residence permit is permanent and it is renewed every fiveyears. Investors and their spouses may apply for citizenship after a 7-year stay in Greece. 

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Modern Science andthe Orthodox Tradition. An uneasy relationship?
  National Hellenic Research Foundation’s Science & Orthodoxy around the World (SOW) project focuses on the dialog between science and religion in the Orthodox Christian world. More than 50 specialists from 15countries participate from various academic fields, such as Science, and Philosophy, to History, Theology and Education. It reaches out to allrelevant scholars, researchers specializing in the study of Science & Religion throughoutthe world, as well as a wider audience with an interest inissues that arise from the relation of sciences with faith. SOW’s actions are to be presented through three large internationalconferences with parallel workshops and proceedings volumes to take place during 2017 and 2018, publiclectures, a documentary and 45 peer-reviewed articles.
 The First InternationalConference of SOW under the title “Modern Science and the Orthodox Tradition. An uneasy relationship?” is takingplace fromFriday 24to Saturday 25 February 2017 at the National Hellenic Research Foundation (Leonidas Zervas Auditorium), 48, Vasileos KonstantinouAve, Athens.  Readmore
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