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The ‘Outview Film Festival’ celebrates 10 years this year and is making a comeback with world and European film premieres, panel discussions, workshops and specials. With the logo ‘Give me your hand-You are wonderful’, a lyric from one of late David Bowie’s songs, the festival will take place at the ‘Teniothiki’ (Video Library) exhibition area on Iera Odod in Athens between April 14 and 24.

The overall position of the Greek government is getting dire by the day. According to a note issued by the Greek Foreign Ministry, the refugee crisis is estimated to cost the Greek state up to 1.8 billion Euros.

While the Greek government is pleading with refugees and illegal immigrants to board the buses at Idomeni in northern Greece to relocate them to reception centers set up all over mainland Greece, the anarchists and other anti-authoritarian fringe groups are taking matters into their own hands by creating their own reception centers at University campuses.

If the Greek ultra-right Golden Dawn party was a political phenomenon difficult to stomach for many, it may be more interesting to look at the latest tribulations in the right of center politics in Greece. The cards are being reshuffled and a new party of the "genuine" right is being formed.
 

Atlantis Books in Santorini is the most interesting bookstore in the world, according to leading National Geographic magazine.

Bulgaria's Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has said Armed Forces and Border Police officers are set to carry out a military drill in a move bolstering security at the country's Black Sea border.

Speaking at the inauguration of Bezmer Airbase, he has not specified a date, but has set the beginning of April as a possible timeframe.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said his country will be forced to raise a fence along the border with Greece if the country does not uphold its "Schengen commitments".

Deputy Foreign Minister Dimitris Mardas expressed the difficulty of guarding Greece’s sea borders on Sunday morning speaking to SKAI TV channel.

The new book – titled Anders gemeinsam – written by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and French Finance Minister Michel Sapin was presented last week and reveals information on Alexis Tsipras, Yanis Varoufakis, Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos.

About 11,600 people have remained at the camp at Idomeni, on Greece's border with Macedonia, as of Saturday after the Greek authorities started evacuating refugees to nearby camps the day before, AFP reported, citing official Greek figures.