Parthenon Marbles not in any Brexit deal: EU
(Artdaily.org)

Greece cannot hope to benefit from EU cultural repatriation rules to get back the Parthenon Marbles from Britain in the event of Brexit, the European Commission said Thursday. Responding to a Greek eurodeputy`s query, EU education and culture commissioner Tibor Navracsics said bloc directives on the repatriation of national treasures apply in cases dating from 1993 onwards. `None of these directives can be applied in this case, as the Parthenon Marbles were removed in the first half of the 19th century,` Navracsics` office told Stelios Kouloglou, a eurodeputy with the ruling Greek Syriza party. The Parthenon sculptures are part of the collection popularly known as the `Elgin Marbles` which were removed from Athens by Lord Elgin in the early 1800s when he was ambassador to the Ottoman court. The British parliament purchased the art