Another article on Le Monde's front page, this time covering how the archaeological site of Olympia has been saved from the flames (while the Island of Euboea near Athens is burning).
You might be surprised that the fires in Greece are covered so prominently by a French newspaper (and by the other media as well, I hear people talking about it in the street). Truth is, I think French people are weirdly attached to Greece (even though we know so very little about it; it's quite far from us, after all). We keep claiming that it is the French who insisted that Greece be allowed to join the EU (EEC at this time) because they just couldn't conceive of an alliance of European countries without the very heart of it.
Another article on Le Monde's front page, this time covering how the archaeological site of Olympia has been saved from the flames (while the Island of Euboea near Athens is burning).
You might be surprised that the fires in Greece are covered so prominently by a French newspaper (and by the other media as well, I hear people talking about it in the street). Truth is, I think French people are weirdly attached to Greece (even though we know so very little about it; it's quite far from us, after all). We keep claiming that it is the French who insisted that Greece be allowed to join the EU (EEC at this time) because they just couldn't conceive of an alliance of European countries without the very heart of it.