Yorgos Lanthimos has won the Jury Prize for The Lobster in the 68th Festival de Cannes, adding a second Cannes prize next to Un Certain Regard Prize for the Dogtooth in 2009.

"You always try to do something different in a film, which makes it hard to achieve unanimous approval. So to win an award is extraordinary." Lanthimos said at a press conference.

StarringColin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C.Reilly and Lea Seydoux, the film is set in dystopian future, where single people are forced to mate in a facility, called the Hotel, within 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into the
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A trilateral meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Francois Hollande was held on the sidelines of the EU's 4th Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, late on Thursday (May 22). The meeting, which lasted about two hours, took place in a friendly and constructive atmosphere; the three leaders discussed the significant progress made so far in negotiations between the Greek government and the institutions and focused on the remaining open issues.

According to a Greek government official, the Greek PM spoke of the country's
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The Annual Conference of the European Sea Ports Organisation is held this year in Piraeus. It focuses on the relation of ports and energy and looks at the role of ports in a changing European energy policy framework. The ESPO 2015 kicked-off yesterday (May 21) by drawing the most realistic energy scenarios and how these will affect transport, ports and port industries. The conference will further examine the way ports can respond and possibly benefit from the shift to alternative energies in maritime transport and how Europe’s decarbonisation agenda could bring new business to ports and how can
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A mobile application that allows users to type messages using only the movements of their eyes has been developed by researcher and PhD candidate Evangelos Skodras from the University of Patras (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department), who, in his paper on Accurate Eye Center Localization Method for Low Resolution Color Imagery explained how the user could fix his/her gaze for a few milliseconds on each of the buttons and make a selection. The application (available on Android) can be used by people suffering from severe paralysis (i.e. quadriplegia) who move nothing but their eyes,
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Organic dark chocolate with rosemary and chili is not something one eats every day. However, thirty seven year-old Athens-based chocolatier, Alexandros Dimitriou, came up with twenty different sophisticated ideas for mouth-watering chocolate flavours.

With an education in chocolate confectionery and haute cuisine in Italy and France, he decided to start his own business, Alexandros Hand made Chocolates, in Greece sixteen years ago; and while the chocolates were only available in Greece at first, the company grew enough to introduce Greek secrets such as the Aegina island pistachios and
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Björn Ulvaeus, the Swedish songwriter, former ABBA member and co-composer of the musical Mamma Mia, in cooperation with a Greek businessman, is about to revive the scenery of the movie filmed in 2008 in the Greek Sporades islands, inside a Greek-style tavern in Stockholm. The idea is to create a restaurant were actors and dancers will perform live on stage the musical’s hits. If the idea proves successful, Ulvaeus says he may proceed with his own chain of theme restaurants. 

Mamma Mia, the musical, has been touring the world for the last fifteen years in 74 cities. When it was adapted to
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is visiting Riga, Latvia, today and tomorrow, to participate in the 4th Eastern Partnership summit, which is focusing on issues relating to Eastern Europe. He is due to hold talks today with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, as well as other European leaders and officials on the sidelines of the summit meeting, as efforts continue towards the political impetus needed to successfully conclude negotiations between Greece and its creditors.

Speaking to the Guardian in Athens yesterday (20.5), government spokesman Gavriel
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The Navarino Environmental Observatory (ΝΕΟ), an international partnership between the academic community and the private sector, will carry on its top research, as it was sealed at an event, held at the Academy of Athens, on May 18. The successful collaboration between Stockholm University, the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens (BRFAA) and TEMES, the Developers of Costa Navarino hotel, has been renewed for the next five years.

NEO, operating since 2010 at Costa Navarino, in Messinia, focuses on the field of research and education on climate change and the
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Acclaimed French-Greek filmmaker Costa-Gavras is the Guest of honor at the Cannes Film Festival (May 13 – 24), where he received a standing ovation at an official screening of a restored version of his 1969 political thriller “Z” (18.5)

Greek Alternate Minister for culture Nikos Xydakis, who attended the tribute screening, commented that the   was also an “honour for Greece, as well as for France and Europe, rewarding a kind of cinema which is not only a form of art, but a medium shaping consciences throughout European democracies.”

Costa-Gavras was awarded the French festival’s Palme d’Or
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  • Il Sogno: Opera & Fashion
Opera encounters fashion for the third time: the project Opera and Fashion, under the title Il sogno (i.e. The Dream) will be held at the Athens Conservatory today (21.5). Based on a concept of the journalist Isma Toulatos and directed by the multi-talented Konstantinos Rigos, this season's production aspires to combine opera with haute couture. This year's special guest is the great lady of Greek fashion, Loukia. Arias will be performed by acclaimed sopranos Vassiliki Karayanni, Myrsini Margariti, Maria Kokka and Artemis Bogri, tenor Nikos Stefanou and bass
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