ΚΑΛΩΣ ΗΛΘΑΤΕ! Kalos ilthate! Welcome!
Welcome to the Global Greek World - a world of Greek-Somethings which stretches from Auckland to Zanzibar, from Aruba to Zimbabwe.
Wherever you are in the world, this is YOUR world!
The winning design comes from Georgios Stamatopoulos, Bank of Greece.
His design has been chosen for the EU 30 year commemorative
2 euro coin to be issued in July.
12 stars in human shape for the 30th anniversary of the EU Flag.
Bravo Georgo!
This is not a first. Born in Athens in 1963, Georgios is a sculptor with a difference. He has specialised in metallic sculpting and coin engraving. Not only do his designs grace the national side of Greece's regular euro coins, many of his submissions have been chosen for various commemorative issues.
His design graced the 2 euro coin issued for the Special Olympics held in Greece despite the economic crisis in 2011,
while his submission for the EU commemorative issue celebrating 10 years of Economic Monetary Union (EMU) was the one selected!
In 2013 he designed the special 2 euro issue commemorating 100 years of the union of Crete with Greece
as well as the one commemorating 2400 years from the founding of Plato's Academy.
Ξεχάστε το GRExit!
Tο σχέδιο του Γιώργου Σταματόπουλου της Τράπεζας της Ελλάδας είναι ο
νικητής για το επετειακό κέρμα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης.
12 άστρα που
σχηματίζουν ανθρώπινες μορφές για την επέτειο της σημαίας της ΕΕ που
συμπληρώνει 30 χρόνια.
Περίπου 75 εκατ. κέρματα με το νέο σχέδιο θα κοπούν από τις 19 χώρες της
ζώνης του ευρώ και θα αρχίσουν να κυκλοφορούν το δεύτερο εξάμηνο του
τρέχοντος έτους.
Γεννημένος στην Αθηνα ο γλύπτης Γιωργος Σταματόπουλος έχει πολλές διακρίσεις στον τομέα αυτό.
Το 1999 φιλοτέχνησε την εθνική όψη των ευρωκερμάτων, το 2009 κερδίσε τον διαγωνισμό για την επετειακή έκδοση για τα 10 χρόνια της ΟΝΕ και το 2011 φιλοτέχνησε την αναμνηστική σειρά για τα Special Olympics που πραγματοποιήθηκαν με λαμπρότητα και ανθρωπιά στην Ελλάδα της κρίσης!
Το 2013 σχεδίασε τα επετειακά κέρματα για τα 100 χρόνια από την ένωση της Κρήτης με την Ελλάδα καθώς και τα 2400 χρόνια από την ίδρυση της Ακαδημίας Πλάτωνος.
Η τελευταία του διάκριση μας χαροποιεί ιδιαίτερα!
Μπράβο Γιώργο!
At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!
This year we decided that we would all sit around our beautifully and still Christmas decorated table for our Greek Dinner! We love to see our
house 'dressed-up' so we usually extend the festive period until after the
feast of Aghia Efthimia on January 20.
Pomegranate, walnut and lettuce salad for starters
Main Course: Roast Pork with Kydonia, Damaskina and roast potatoes
Dessert: Yummy Galaktoboureko and Kormo cake
Cretan Gruyere - Graviera with honey: Cheese the Greek way
and to go with it all...
CAIR Rodos Bubbly We also had Tsikoudia but couldn't find the photo in time!
21 March marks the beginning of Spring in Greece and the rest of the Northern
Hemisphere while March is traditionally a month of renewal and new beginnings…
Our household is no exception to this.
Our most precious and wonderful
stars came to life, both literally and figuratively, during the month of March!
Our little Miss 13 turns 14 at the end of the month, the little sweetheart who little
Miss 13 is Nona to turns 2 today, and with her, Global Greek World turns 5!!!
Hard to believe that it is already 5 years since the day we published
our first post, 5 years since we started our journey into the wonderful world
of the people we call Global Greeks, the world of the Hellenic Diaspora both in
Greece and in our vibrant and dynamic Global Greek communities abroad.
Over these 5 years, we have made it our goal to focus on the positive
aspects of Greece
and our people in the world, selecting and highlighting our Global Greek
shakers, movers and achievers.
We’ve focused on bright, creative, talented, dynamic and forward-looking
Global Greeks who have turned adversity into advantage and excelled both at
home and on the world stage. Despite the prevailing doom and gloom of the economic
crisis which Greece has had
to grapple with and which has led to dramatic changes across a broad spectrum
of Greek society and life in Greece,
these are the people who should serve as role models for the generations to
come.
We've chosen some of these great role models to be part of a new section we will be featuring on our site from today, a section we have named
We asked some of our Global Greeks the same 20 questions and told them to answer in any way they want! Well, we have had some really interesting responses which we are sure you will enjoy reading! Thoughtful and thought provoking indeed! Keep them coming!
In our first five years which have coincided with Greece's debilitating economic crisis, we have often been accused of sugar-coating the truth. It isn’t true. We
try to look on the bright side of the economic crisis, looking at the
opportunities and the benefits that can come out of such crises.
We’ve focused on Greece
and being Greek and all that that entails.
We’ve focused on things that have made us feel good about being Greek,
things that have made us feel good about Greece. Not that we haven’t done
our share of criticizing the powers that
be who have led this beautiful country into the worst debacle in its post war history, for their inactivity, inadequacy and general impotence to nip situations in the bud before they got out of hand, and the lack of controls in all forms of civil life.
Our Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and
Pinterest pages are active and interactive and cover all those subjects which are so relevant to our
lives as Hellenes in Greece
and abroad.
If you follow us you will know we discuss everything: from Athens' Magical, Unforgettable Olympic Games, the Aganaktismenoi demonstrations in Syntagma, and the naming issue of FYROM to Greek traditions, the Greek Yoghurts
and cheeses available in supermarkets in the USA and, of course, Mission/Pilgrimage/Campaign for the Repatriation of the Parthenon Sculptures which we support with passion!
In these 5 years we have tried to give something back to our homeland, to do something for Greece. Under the umbrella of Global Greek World we have set up and run initiatives dear to our hearts, initiatives which we believe in and will develop even further in the next couple of years. Global Greek of the Year
In 2012 we held our first Global Greek of the Year Poll. Over 20 nominations of Greeks from various parts of our Global Greek World who have honoured their Hellenism came from our readers.
The Honorary Global Greek of the Year Award went to Mikis Theodorakis, our legendary composer, for his unique and tremendous contribution to Greek music, art and culture, for giving us such a rich and inspiring musical heritage.
Greece's beloved international tenor, Mario Frangoulis,was our first ever Global Greek of the Year. Incidentally, Mario will be giving two charity performances today and tomorrow at New York's Lincoln Centre. The concerts in aid of New Yorkers for Children and Apostoli-Mission in Greece are sold out! Well done! Way to go Mario!
Visionary brand strategist Peter Economides came in in 2nd place
Every Honest Greek Citizen, not surprisingly, polled 3rd
Greek beaches and tourist spots were never in crisis but the unrest, the political and financial instability driven by the omnipresent threat of bankruptcy along with the persistent strikes almost derailed Greece's major income earner. The
economic crisis and the foreign media's exaggeration of the problems
brought thousands of cancellations from people who had planned to visit
but were worried that they would end up stranded. Along
with other Global Greek groups and organisations we decided we had to
do something to showcase the beauties of Greece and encourage people to
continue to take their holidays here, especially our Global Greeks. With various posts promoting the beauties of Greece and showcasing all the positive aspects as well as the hundreds of high profile visitors such as Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson, John Travolta, Russell Crowe, even the Kardashians! We try to encourage EVERYONE to do the same, to Visit Greece this Summer and not only telling them that Greece is beautiful all year round! You can check out some of our posts on the relevant section of our blog.
Our Keep Calm and Come to Greece Poster
As part of our Visit Greece this Summer campaign, we have also run 2 very successful
World Tourism Day Photo Competitions asking people to submit a photo of
Greece for readers to vote for. We got over 200 magnificent photos last
year and we set it to music... Watch the video of all the entries in the sidebar of our blog or on our Global Greek World You Tube Channel!
Over 200 magnificent photos of Greece make up this gorgeous poster
The Buy Greek initiative started as a way of supporting and promoting Greek products and Greek jobs. It is aimed at encouraging people to support Greek
products and services in the widest sense of the word and refers to all
the things available in Greece, from physical products of the land or its
industries to Greece's rich and unique cultural heritage, and
everything in between, on land or sea.
This includes supporting
industries that have a positive impact on the economy and sustain jobs
in Greece because ultimately that is the only way forward... In brief, anything that's Greek owned, produced, invented or made in Greece.
Keeping it in the family: this was created by our little Miss 13
As a by-product of this initiative, we have run a successful Buy GREEK for Xmas Facebook Campaign for the last three Christmases, asking people to prefer something Greek for their Christmas gifts each year. Last year we even had prizes for 5 lucky participants!
One of the many fantastic cover pictures created for
Μην κοιτάς τι κάνει
η πατρίδα
για σένα, Κοίτα τί μπορείς ΕΣΥ να κάνεις για ΑΥΤΗ...
Global Greeks for Greece
is about mobilising Greece's dynamic and resourceful diaspora, a pretty
well untapped and underutilised asset, and showcasing those individuals and organisations coming
through for our homeland. We even started a Facebook Page called Enforce the Smoking Ban in Greece! Don't Back Down! hoping that we could do something to help in that respect!
Each of these initiatives will be developed extensively in the very near future, along with others as they come up! Stay tuned!
We welcome your suggestions and feedback on what you see and what you would like to see more of on GGW. We will be more than happy to follow-up.
Our thanks to all of YOU, our friends and followers around the world for your amazing and inspiring support these last 5 years! At GGW as we call it, we look forward to a stronger and more dynamic future. Our homeland is our inspiration, preserving our wonderful heritage for our children and yours is our objective.
We thank each and everyone of you for joining us on our journey and hope you will stay with us!
Special thanks must also go to all those friends who have been supportive and generous, donating prizes for our competitions and the prize draws.
With everyone's help we can do so much!
As Peter Economides says...
ΓΙΝΕΤΑI
or as We say...
YES, Greece CAN!
Let's do it!
At Global Greek World, We ♥ Greece...and it shows!
Join the conversation - help us spread the word Follow us on Twitter or Instagram
Welcome to the 3rd year of our annual Buy GREEK for Christmas Campaign on Facebook!
One of our traditional sayings goes 'If you don't praise your home it will fall
on your head...' what
else is Greece but our collective home and one of the most beautiful in
the world?
By Buying GREEK wherever in the world you are over the holidays...you
are actively adding your support and solidarity to the efforts of the
people in this beautiful country to start the economic recovery process
from the grass roots level, by helping sustain Greek jobs and
businesses. Every little bit helps!
Being part of our campaign does not imply that you need to be anywhere
on any particular date... all it means is that you too are going to buy
or maybe make something Greek - kourambiedes, taramosalata, olives,
feta, yoghurt, a piece of chocolate, eat at a Greek restaurant, download
a Greek song, buy a book, a theatre ticket, a DVD or CD, buy a bottle
of Greek wine, olive oil or ouzo, visit a Museum, or an on-line Museum
Shop, book your holiday in Greece, take the Metro to Monastiraki and
have a souvlaki or catch a ferryboat to one of Greece's beautiful
islands.
If you or your company gives corporate or client gifts, include some of
Greece's great wines, cheeses, nuts, olive oil, fragranced soaps or
unique handmade silver items.
Even if you cannot buy something GREEK, you can still support our campaign!
Just click on the link, join and share, share, share - tell your
friends, tell the world, that you are proud to be one of those who
support Greece - proud to be part of the Buy GREEK movement!
Like our Buy Greek
page, join and share our event and you go into the draw for one of the
great prizes to be drawn on 8 January, 2014, when our event ends! Use
the hashtag #BuyGREEK4Xmas to make sure we see it. If you are a business in Greece or abroad with Greek products or services, a writer, a museum etc and would like to offer a prize for the draw, tell us! All donations to our #BuyGREEK4Xmas
event will get mentioned on the event wall, on our pages, and on this
site in a special wrap-up post. Email, message us or write on the event
wall!
Στηρίζουμε Ελλάδα! Φέτος στις Γιορτές Επιμένω ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ!
Αν δεν παινέψεις το σπίτι σου, θα πέσει να σε πλακώσει... Η Ελλάδα δεν
είναι παρά το συλλογικό μας σπίτι και ένα από τα πιο όμορφα του κόσμου!
Φέτος για 3η χρονιά συνεχίζουμε την καθιερωμένη - με την δική σας βοήθεια βεβαίως - εκστρατεία μας, Buy GREEK for Christmas - Φέτος στις Γιορτές Επιμένω ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ!
Δεν χρειάζετε να είμαστε κάπου συγκεκριμένα, η συμμετοχή είναι απλή...
δίνουμε το παρών και λέμε ΝΑΙ στα Ελληνικά προϊόντα!
Πολλά μπορείτε να κάνετε.
Αγοράστε μιά σοκολατίτσα, ένα βιβλίο, ένα CD,
ένα σουβλάκι, επίσκεφτείτε κάποιο από τα καταπληκτικά μουσεία της
Ελλάδας. Εάν δίνετε επιχειρηματικά δώρα διαλέξτε από τα καλύτερα της
Ελλάδας, Ελληνικο κρασί και ελαιόλαδο, χειροποίητα Ελληνικά γούρια σε
ασήμι... πολλά μπορείτε να βρείτε.
Μοιραστείτε την εκστρατεία μας με τους φίλους σας.
Στηρίζουμε τα Ελληνικά προΐόντα για να διατηρήθούν θέσεις
εργασίας και να στηρίξουμε την οικονομία της Ελλάδας.
Πείτε στους φίλους και γνωστούς ότι αγοράζοντας Ελληνικά, στηρίζουμε όλοι την Ελλάδα μας και τους δικούς μας ανθρώπους - ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΑΞΗ!
Κάντε Like στην σελίδα του Buy Greek , μοιραστείτε την εκστρατεία μας και μπείτε στην κλήρωση για ένα από τα δώρα που θα κληρωθούν στις 8 Ιανουαρίου, 2014, στη λήξη της εκστρατείας μας. Μοιραστείτε με το hashtag #BuyGREEK4Xmas για να το δούμε!
Εάν είστε Ελληνική επιχείρηση, προσφέρετε Ελληνικά προϊόντα ή υπηρεσίες στην Ελλάδα ή στο εξωτερικό, και θα θέλατε να μας προσφέρετε ένα δώρο για την κλήρωση, παρακαλούμε ενημερώστε μας.
Εμείς θα ανταποδώσουμε και θα σας ευχαριστήσουμε δημοσίως στις σελίδες μας και στην ιστοσελίδα μας!
Design by Sophia Georgaki Many thanks for the great design, Sophia!
Welcome to the 2nd year of our Buy GREEK for Christmas Campaign on Facebook!
After last year's successful beginning, we decided to make this an annual 'event'.
One of our traditional sayings goes 'If you don't praise your home it will fall
and crush you...' what
else is Greece but our collective home and one of the most beautiful in
the world?
By Buying GREEK wherever in the world you are over the holidays...you are actively adding your support and solidarity to the efforts of the people in this beautiful country to start the economic recovery process from the grass roots level, by helping sustain Greek jobs and businesses.
Being part of our campaign does not imply that you need to be anywhere on any particular date... all it means is that you too are going to buy or maybe make something Greek - kourambiedes, taramosalata, olives, feta, yoghurt, a piece of chocolate, eat at a Greek restaurant, download a Greek song, buy a book, a theatre ticket, a DVD or CD, buy a bottle of Greek wine, olive oil or ouzo, visit a Museum, or an on-line Museum Shop, book your holiday in Greece, take the Metro to Monastiraki and have a souvlaki or catch a ferryboat to one of Greece's beautiful islands.
If you or your company gives corporate or client gifts, include some of Greece's great wines, olive oil or unique handmade silver items.
Even if you cannot buy something GREEK, you can still support our campaign!
Just click on the link and share, share, share - tell your friends, tell the world, that you are proud to be one of those who support Greece - proud to be part of the Buy GREEK movement!
We really liked what one of our friends, John Lewis, wrote this on the event wall:
Western
Christmas shopping is about 1 trillion USD and if one in 100 people
bought something made in Greece this X-mas, that would add 10 billion to
our GDP pulling Greece out of recession and into marginal growth. It
would add 100,000 manufacturing jobs which would ripple out to a 5%
reduction in unemployment. 1 in 100.
Στηρίζουμε Ελλάδα! Φέτος στις Γιορτές Επιμένω ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ!
Αν δεν παινέψεις το σπίτι σου, θα πέσει να σε πλακώσει... Η Ελλάδα δεν
είναι παρά ένα συλλογικό σπίτι και ένα από τα πιο όμορφα του κόσμου!
Φέτος για δεύτερη χρονιά συνεχίζουμε την εκστρατεία μας Buy GREEK for Christmas - Φέτος στις Γιορτές Επιμένω ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ!
Με την δική σας βοήθεια βεβαίως, λέμε να το καθιερώσουμε.
Δεν χρειάζετε να είμαστε κάπου συγκεκριμένα, η συμμετοχή είναι απλή...
δίνουμε το παρών και λέμε ΝΑΙ στα Ελληνικά προϊόντα!
Πολλά μπορείτε να κάνετε. Αγοράστε μιά σοκολατίτσα, ένα βιβλίο, ένα CD, ένα σουβλάκι, επίσκεφτείτε κάποιο από τα καταπληκτικά μουσεία της Ελλάδας. Εάν δίνετε επιχειρηματικά δώρα διαλέξτε από τα καλύτερα της Ελλάδας, Ελληνικο κρασί και ελαιόλαδο, χειροποίητα Ελληνικά γούρια σε ασήμι... πολλά μπορείτε να βρείτε.
Μοιραστείτε την εκστρατεία μας με τους φίλους σας.
Στηρίζουμε τα Ελληνικά προΐόντα για να διατηρήθούν θέσεις
εργασίας και να στηρίξουμε την οικονομία της Ελλάδας.
Πείτε στους φίλους και γνωστούς ότι αγοράζοντας Ελληνικά, στηρίζουμε όλοι την Ελλάδα μας και τους δικούς μας ανθρώπους - ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΑΞΗ!
A big bravo to Maria and all of our Global Greeks who carry the flag proudly and who, despite the negative image of their homeland that abounds in the international press, go against the tide and wear Greece's colours with pride!
Last night she wore a top emblazoned with the Greek flag on Wrestlemania and wowed them all just as she did on Dancing With the Stars...
Here's what she said on Twitter on 20 March right after that appearance;
I wore the greek colors! Danced to a greek girls song (kelly
clarkson)
and a greek designed my costume! Opa!
That's what we call Greek Power...
Proud to be Greek and it shows!
PS Maria, Chloe Koromila of Greek company Femme Fatale would love to send you a pair of her very own designed dancing shoes, handmade in Greece, to go with that Greek outfit and especially that beautiful Greek heart of yours!
Just give us the word and they'll soon be on their way to the USA...
Just the thing for DWTS. Thanks Mary Papoulias Platis, California
Greek Girl, one of our friends on our Buy GREEK page, for the suggestion!
In this Warner Bros photo from Hangover II
Global Greek Zach Galifianakis (left) wearing THE bag
as a porter pushes the trolley with THE luggage
It's Monday January 2nd, 2012! Happy New Year! Not a very happy one for luxury brand owner LVMH who has filed a suit against Warner Bros according to today's morning frappe from fellow Greek portal Greek Gateway!!!
LVMH has sued Warner Bros because of the fake LV monogrammed luggage carried by Global Greek actor Zach Galifianakis in Hangover II and the reference he made to it ' Careful...that's a...that's a Louis Vuitton...'
Good luck to the people at Louis Vuitton! We have a great deal of respect for
international law but please don't take yourselves so seriously...this is
Hollywood THE world of total pretense, the world which gave meaning to the word 'fake'...
When we read this gem, four things sprang to mind...
One: Warner Bros should counter-sue on the grounds that they are giving LV free publicity... just think how many millions of people who saw this movie had never heard of Louis Vuitton, let alone seen their exclusive, astronomically priced, only-for-the-privileged products? How many of the people who saw these would know they were fakes?
Two:Time to copyright the Greek language folks! If Louis Vuitton can sue over the use of a word or a product that it has originated , and thus make money, imagine how much Greece could make if we sued everyone around the world who is not Greek but uses a word of Greek origin... thousands of words are floating around out there which our noble ancestors weren't 'smart' enough to copyright!
Three: We would be very happy if Louis Vuitton successfully sues the Chinese manufacturers who are knocking off its brand of products and shipping it around the world. We are truly sick and tired of these knock-offs cluttering up the streets of Athens, hawked by hundreds of illegal immigrants who play hide and seek with the Greek police!
Four: Warner Bros should have been smart enough to Buy GREEK! There are hundreds of great leather products in Greece...eg KEM they didn't have to resort to cheap fake LV luggage after all!
A fifth point came to mind while uploading these pictures... maybe Greece should sue Louis Vuitton for allowing a knock-off manufacturer to flood the world with his copies of their goods and cheapen our beautiful Athenian Trilogy buildings...
Academy of Athens - one of Greece's magnificent classic Athenian Trilogy Buildings
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