Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-03-14

Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article

From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] No political games with labour issues, Alt. Labour Min Antonopoulou tells ANA

[02] ND's Hatzidakis: Goverment's policy does not bear fruit

[03] Art Nouveau exhibition at Benaki Museum

[01] No political games with labour issues, Alt. Labour Min Antonopoulou tells ANA

"There are huge national issues on which the public and private sector, the government and the opposition party should be in coordination, and one of them is unemployment," said Antonopoulou.

[02] ND's Hatzidakis: Goverment's policy does not bear fruit

He also said that the government and the prime minister made a series of contradictory statements on the deadlines and the end of the negotiation.

"Nothing is more uncertain than the statements of the prime minister," he said adding that the government estimations were proved wrong.

Hatzidakis stressed that the government's policy does not bear fruit. "We have returned to recession and deposits outflow, bad loans have increased and the borrowing rates are on the rise. Things are getting worse. The trust has been lost, the markets have stalled, exports and investments are under pressure," he said commenting on the government's statements that austerity has come to an end.

[03] Art Nouveau exhibition at Benaki Museum

The inauguration will be held on April 5, at 20:00, at the Benaki Museum.

The works of art displayed in the exhibition were selected by the responsible of the German museum and cover a wide range of categories such as: textiles, jewellery, furniture, pottery, sculptures, houseware, decorative objects by distinguished artists as Alfons Mucha, Hector Guimard, Emile Gallé, Peter Behrens, Richard Riemerschmid, Josef Hoffmann, Josef Maria Olbrich, Koloman Moser, Henry van de Velde and Archibald Knox.

The exhibition aims to offer a kaleidoscopic image of the international and compose character of the Art Nouveau movement by presenting significant works from Germany, France, Austria, England and Belgium.

The Badisches Landesmuseum collection is of the most impressive in Europe and reveals the multiple options of the Art Nouveau attributed to the local varieties and each country's special characteristics.

The event is held as part of the cooperation memorandum between the Greek Culture Ministry and the State Ministry of science research and arts of Baden-Württemberg. The cooperation started in June 2014 with the repatriation of two antiquities that were smuggled from Greece to Germany.

Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article