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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Growing talk there could be snap elections has made party leaders concentrate more on campaigning and less on critical reforms, the head of Greece’s largest employers association, Theodoros Fessas of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises said.
He made his concerns known after Greek bank shares plummeted on the Athens Stock Exchange after news reports said the country’s creditors have concerns about a mountain of bad loans representing some 40 percent of the institutions’ portfolios.
“The (Greek) economy is in a low orbit. The climate, compared with the period before the summer, has worsened, because we’ve entered a pre-election season … there’s no money to dole out; there’s a need to create wealth,” he said, the business newspaper Naftemporiki reported.
That was in reference to Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, far behind in polls to the major rival New Democracy Conservatives after repeatedly reneging on anti-austerity promises saying he wants to halt pension cuts he agreed to impose on Jan. 1, 2019 and wants to keep giving handouts to low-income pensioners and jobless youth in what critics said was a transparent scheme to buy votes.
Three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($376.02 billion) ended on Aug. 20 after eight years but the lenders, the Troika of the European Union-European Central Bank-European Stability Mechanism (EU-ECB-ESM) and the Washington, D.C.-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the economy will need monitoring for years to make sure fiscal targets are hit and that Tsipras doesn’t renege to them they way he did to voters.
His fall in surveys has set off speculation he may call snap elections before they are required to be by October of 2019 to prevent New Democracy from gaining any momentum if the pension cuts go into effect.
Fessas and Tsipras locked horns in July when the after the industrialist chief said the government was discouraging would-be investors critical to the country’s recovery from an economic crisis.
“At the same time, there’s an attempt to divide entrepreneurship in the country into ‘good’ and ‘bad.’ The markets will not forgive such double-talk, or the reversal of reforms and (political) polarization. A return to normalcy is not served in such a manner,” he said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.