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With the anticipation of the 18th Hot Corner Food and Music Festival, co-owner of the World Famous, David Eduardo and Montu Miller brought are blending politics with Athens nightlife and raise funds for the upcoming festival. The Town Hall Benefit Bash for Hot Corner Fest on May 10 will host local performers, a raffle and a variety of Athens candidates. The event will be at the World Famous and begins at 9 p.m. and continues until midnight. A $5 donation is suggested at the door. "It's political season, so this event is for people who didn't necessarily go to the forums or couldn't make the events during the daytime," said Miller, who has been involved with Hot Corner Fest for the past eight years. "We wanted to bring the politicians to the night scene in Athens." One way this festival is able to continue to grow is through benefit events such as this Town Hall Benefit Bash, Miller said. The Hot Corner Festival is a celebration of black arts, Miller said. "There are black people all over Athens," Miller said. The Hot Corner Festival will take place on June 8 and 9 with Athens food vendors and performers.

Though the official rollout has now been postponed, Macron’s latest project remains central to his presidency and to his conception of power. Macron’s ‘La grande marche pour l’Europe’ will mimic the program that toppled France’s dominant political parties and transformed his La République En Marche ! Few are better acquainted with Macron’s thinking than French historian and philosopher François Dosse. Similarly, Macron’s vision for Europe seems to reconcile the irreconcilable: his plan is both to preserve member states’ sovereignty and deepen EU integration. Macron also hopes to reconcile opposite ideas with respect to the euro. The second Ricoeurian concept underpinning Macron’s worldview is the idea of a European ‘refoundation’. To that end, he has considered creating a Europe-wide ‘En Marche !’ movement that could nominate its own Spitzenkandidat to the European Commission presidency. Initially, the Macronistes had planned to recruit defectors from other party groups, and then ally with the left-leaning Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. But the creation of a European En Marche ! In his view, sovereignty in Europe can really be exercised only at the level of the EU.