Nurturing a valuable friendship

The first Greek-British Symposium, at Nafplio last year, inaugurated a high-level dialogue between politicians, businesspeople, academics and other specialists. The aim was to improve ties that were already good and to look for new ways of cooperating in the challenging international environment. That successful start was followed by the second symposium, held at Ditchley Park, near Oxford, on October 18-20. The focus of the meeting was the need for the two countries to look outward and the potential that this would release in various crucial sectors. It came at a time of great introversion in both the United Kingdom and Greece: On the last day of the symposium, a Saturday, more than 700,000 people gathered in London to protest against Brexit, the issue which dominated most conversations at Ditchley Park, as, of course, in the whole of Britain. At the same time, in Athens the...