<rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>News &amp; events</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/</link><description></description><item><guid>e217073d-e5e7-47d7-b948-a79b300d90e5</guid><title>King Harald visits an indigenous tribe in the Amazon rainforest</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Curent-affairs/King-Harald-visits-an-indigenous-tribe-in-the-Amazon-rainforest/</link><description>Last week His Majesty The King fulfilled a long-held dream when he spent four days living with the Yanomami people in a remote part of the Amazon River basin.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>e5f6fe22-8046-4dd8-9937-f3f50cc695a7</guid><title>International Food Festival </title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Curent-affairs/International-Food-Festival/</link><description>Lady Ambassadors, Ambassador's Spouses Athens (LAASA) and the SOS Villages Greece invite you to the International Food Festival, on 26th May 2013. There will be a Nordic table with Norwegian dishes such as waffels and griddle cake. All proceeds raised from the event will be donated to the SOS Children's Village Vari.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:20:07 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>37cacb00-52c4-4d99-8bfc-e5790f97dfa8</guid><title>Norway to give additional NOK 100 million to help Syrian refugees</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Norway-to-give-additional-NOK-100-million-to-help-Syrian-refugees/</link><description>“The refugee crisis in Syria is on its way to becoming the worst since the Second World War. The Government is therefore increasing Norway’s assistance by NOK 100 million,” announced Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide. </description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:01:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>313a3a57-4739-4eda-ae30-a8d4ac6a2c4c</guid><title>Environment: Europe’s bathing waters continue to improve</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Curent-affairs/Environment-Europes-bathing-waters-continue-to-improve/</link><description>Cyprus and Greece achieves the highest mark of excellent water quality on listed bathing sites in new report by the European Environment Agency.   </description><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:45:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>e817048a-c895-4c9a-b194-6b9c9f250131</guid><title>Andrea Gjestvang Photographer of the Year</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/Norwegian-Photographer-Andrea-Gjestvang-Named-Photographer-of-the-Year/</link><description>The young Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang was announced as the L'Iris d'Or / Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year. The judges voted unanimously for Gjestvang's powerful series of portraits of children and youths who survived the massacre in Utøya in 2011.


</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:03:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>960d6721-8d60-43f6-bc64-7ce5829e209d</guid><title>Norway provides NOK 240 million to efforts to eradicate polio</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Curent-affairs/Norway-provides-NOK-240-million-to-efforts-to-eradicate-polio/</link><description>Polio can be eradicated within the space of five to six years. Norway is to increase its level of support for efforts to eradicate polio by NOK 190 million, to NOK 240 million (USD 40 million).  </description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 16:24:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>5fb9b86d-1eaa-4122-a39d-3e399af1a0ba</guid><title>Combating hate speech online</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Curent-affairs/Combating-hate-speech-online/</link><description>Norway is mobilising against hate speech in Europe. Through the EEA and Norway Grants Norway has entered into a strategic partnership with the Council of Europe’s youth project on combating hate speech online.</description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:52:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>3d6cc7c1-37a1-435f-957b-58686dd026d0</guid><title>Superpower at sea</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Business/Supepower-at-sea/</link><description>Norway has been a major player in shipping for more than 150 years. This small country on the fringe of Europe, which has less than a thousandth of the world’s population, controls one of the world’s largest merchant fleets.</description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:24:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>5c1996f8-5cc1-484d-80c8-ae38e26349a7</guid><title>Ancient Greek girl tours Greece</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/2500-year-old-Greek-girl-revived/</link><description>The exhibition of the ancient Athenian Myrtis is touring Greece and foreign countries. You can now catch the exhibition at the Archaeological Museum of Igoumenitsa.</description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:23:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>5416a334-6a6b-4db6-8b4c-1787a2b74b4d</guid><title>Equal opportunities</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Curent-affairs/Getting-Women-on-Board/</link><description>Norway is considered to be one of the countries where gender equality is most fully realised. This is a result of long-term political efforts by a series of Norwegian governments backed by the Norwegian parliament. One of the most famous and contested such measures is the “Women on Boards” Act, internationally dubbed the Norwegian Quota Law.  
</description><pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 07:53:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>807e8c94-3b8f-4fc2-92fe-014136826db2</guid><title>Norwegian companies in Greece and Cyprus</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Business/Companies/</link><description>Norwegian companies with offices in Greece and Cyprus.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:44:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>6a1c0dcb-d247-4a20-8078-02bcbaa405a4</guid><title>EEA and Norway Grants: What?</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/The-EEA-and-Norway-Grants1/EEA-and-Norway-Grants-What/</link><description>Grants from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway to reduce disparities in Europe and to strengthen bilateral relations with 15 EU countries in Central and Southern Europe.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:10:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>be7f2e38-6a95-4b0d-bda3-de54780d0bad</guid><title>EEA and Norway Grants: Why?</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/The-EEA-and-Norway-Grants1/EEA-and-Norway-Grants-Why/</link><description>Towards a more equal and sustainable Europe.





</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 12:06:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>1b44b726-b5fd-47d6-9739-ac2c2e5d8685</guid><title>Munch 150: Anniversary Magazine</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/Munch-150-Anniversary-Magazine/</link><description>A new magazine is published in connection with the 150th anniversary of Edvard Munch’s birth. </description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:07:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>283f4c50-98a3-4524-805b-f4b955f2babf</guid><title>Ibsen's Love's Comedy</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/Ibsen-musical-Loves-Comedy/</link><description>For the first time in Athens, Ibsen’s bittersweet play Love’s Comedy is staged by director Giorgos Livanos and Theatrinon Theates. </description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:40:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>619ef02d-24c8-4a65-8ddb-c886eca2ad36</guid><title>150th anniversary of Edvard Munch</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/150th-anniversary-of-Edvard-Munch/</link><description>Munch is one of the most important artists of Modernism, and a number of cultural events with focus on his work will be arranged in 2013, the 150th anniversary of his birth. </description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:25:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>de01f39b-e59c-46f4-b89f-e784f32ec23c</guid><title>Enchanting Norwegian fairytale </title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/Enchanting-Norwegian-fairytale-in-Athens/</link><description>The Petro Theatre Group has adopted the Norwegian folk tale "Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne" into a play - "Από που πάνε για το κάστρο, παρακαλώ?" </description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:44:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>cfb447f7-541a-4347-a368-70b3d532c9ae</guid><title>Norway is the Country of Honour at the Olympus Festival 2013</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Events/Norway-is-the-Country-of-Honour-at-the-Olympus-Festival-2013/</link><description>The Olympus Festival 2013 begins in July. </description><pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:27:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>4cd67c3a-4d03-4e99-856b-c0c34d88ad56</guid><title>Norway invests in Greece</title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Business/Norway-invests-in-Greece/</link><description>Do you know how much The Norwegian Pension Fund has invested in Greece? Click to see a complete list of the Greek companies. </description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><guid>c23855d1-41aa-4e07-8758-bc4d04d5a57f</guid><title>Το Ταμείο Συντάξεων της Νορβηγίας </title><link>http://www.norway.gr/News_and_events/Business/The-norwegian-pension-fund---making-ethical-investments1/</link><description>Το Ταμείο Συντάξεων της Νορβηγίας κατέχει περισσότερο από 1 τοις εκατό του συνόλου των μετοχών. Τα περιουσιακά στοιχεία του Ταμείου προέρχονται από εισοδήματα από το πετρέλαιο και το αέριο. </description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:01:45 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>