France and Greece: Structural and Tax Reform Partnership

Thanks to Observing Greece for the link to the Protocol between the Hellenic Republic and the French Republic For a Partnership for reforms in the Hellenic Republic (Πηγή: reporter.gr)

Ellis Island: America's Immigrants - Photographs from 1907 by Augustus Sherman

Thanks to Chris King for the link to this Washington Post feature by Ana Swanson - "What America’s immigrants looked like when they arrived on Ellis Island"

Fascinating portraits first published in National Geographic in 1907

Also picked up by MailOnline

Australia - New Britannia? The British Diaspora

I was surprised to find myself cited in a book called "New Britannia". by Alan James - see pages 146-149

About the book:

"In 1788 Britain founded a tiny new colony half a world away. For the next two centuries millions of young men and women from all over the British Isles - but mostly from England - settled in Australia. They brought with them the best traditions of the "mother country", believing that their manifest destiny was to create a new and better Britannia. Yet for the last forty years the cultural fire that these young pioneers carried with them from the British Isles hearth has been assailed from all sides. Whether Anglo-Australia eventually survives or succumbs, its fate may well be a microcosm of what awaits the rest of the British diaspora".

It's often surprising what one finds when surfing the web. I'm also cited in the bibliography of a book by Claudia Gunz, called "Attitudes to War: Literatur Und Film Von Shakespeare Bis Afghanistan" - see page 237, note 643.

How quickly one forgets ephemeral articles...yet references seem to crop up in the most unlikely places.

reveal:conceal - A Dorchester exhibition of work by Dorset based artists Amanda Wallwork and Robert Woolner -The Gallery at Duke’s 28 October – 20 November

Exhibition details here - Dorchester Arts  -28 Oct – 20 Nov • reveal : conceal • The Gallery at Duke’s

"The exhibition features the work of two Dorset artists whose abstract paintings, skillfully constructed and deconstructed from layers of plaster, oil paint and other mixed media, are created as much by removing layers as by adding them. Both artists are influenced by the landscapes of Dorset and the processes of archaeology, and the resulting works are not only beautiful but intriguing, with surface layers that have been left untouched, underlying strata that have been revealed, and hidden depths that remain out of reach…"

Blackmore Vale Magazine item - Duke's creates gallery space for contemporary art in Dorchester

Prague's Hip Neighbourhoods

"Prague: finding a new edge - With Old Prague now tourist central, David Farley follows local artists and hipsters to the Czech capital’s newly transformed outer neighbourhoods" The Observer.

The EU: Refugees

From The Guardian - "EU and Balkans agree plan for 100,000 places in reception centres for migrants"

From EU Observer - "Balkan leaders to stop pushing migrants to neighbours"

Greece will accommodate 50,000 refugees (Kathimerini, in Greek)

Another article, in English

More EU aid for Greece

Euronews report on MEPs' reactions

Huffington Post - Liliana Bird blog: Life in Lesbos: "The Children's Feet Are Rotting - You Guys Have One Month and Then All These People Will Be Dead"

DW: Lesbos braces for winter as refugees keep coming

EU Observer - UN human rights chief slams 'swarm' rhetoric

Tsipras: Europe’s “Crocodile Tears” and “Hypocrisy” (The Pappas Post)

Take Down That Wall, Mr. Tsipras and Before We Talk About European Hypocrisy, let’s Look at Our Own (The Pappas Post)
Cyprus Mail article - "Nations needed to stop avoiding responsibility in the crisis, said German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. 'I am convinced that we won’t get anywhere if we just point the finger at each other, if one considers that the responsibility lies with the other,' Steinmeier said during a meeting in Athens with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos".

The Guardian - Tony Abbott urges Europe to adopt Australian policies in refugee crisis

The City of Stockholm is losing track of how many EU migrants are in the city. Svenksa Dagbladet

Past posting: Relocating Refugees (May 2015)