All Skopje and no play makes Yiannakis a dull boy. For over a year the Macedonian Issue has dominated the attention of the country to the exclusion of nearly everything else. It is beginning to dawn now on a growing number of people that there are other things to do and think about without being accused of sedition.
I had clambered up the steep hill to visit her in her flat in Ano Ilissia. It was full of momentoes and photos, each representative of an incident or period that, like her writing, altogether yields a lively impression. During our talk she held up or pointed to different objects, explaining how she has absorbed various events and then reflected them to me with her own stamp upon them.
The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute at Hania is in the vanguard of European efforts to develop new perspectives for agricultural development.
It is true that the Romans were not quite civilized when they came to this part of the world. They were, however, honest enough to agree with Horace; they copied much, if not all from Greece, and definitely its culture.
On December 12 the European Community (which is so adept at putting things off) decided not to decide on what the future name of the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia should be.
“Here perhaps for the first time in the history of European art, emotion and pain are fully realized.” So the eminent art historian Manolis Hadzidakis has written of frescoes which can still be seen in Slavic Macedonia where tragedy seems to be indigenous.
Mrs Eleni Glykatzi-Ahrweiler for years has been the cultural moderator between Hellenism and Western Europe. In a special interview she looks at the past and the future of both at a critical moment.
Romania has always hosted an active and prosperous Greek community, one that has served as a bridge between Athens and Bucharest.
The collapse of the Iron Curtain and the break-up of the Yugoslav Federation has dramatically drawn Greece back into Balkan affairs.
Plans are afoot to create an independent Forest Fund which will put protection and management together on a sound, professional, year-round basis.
