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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 – Greece is just as attractive for investments with the COVID-19 Coronavirus lessening as it was before the pandemic hit, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, wanting them to put in their money.
He told senior executives of the Young Presidents' Organisation (YPO) in a video conference May 21, with an audience of about 1,000 CEOs and business leaders in more than 100 countries, that Greece’s handling of the virus showed it’s ready to pick up a recovery again.
The country was just beginning to accelerate a rebound from a near-decade long economic and austerity crisis after the Aug. 20, 2018 end of three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($358.58 billion) when COVID-19 struck.
The government had lowered a corporate tax rate hiked to 29 percent by the former ruling anti-business Radical Left SYRIZA and was planning further cuts before the virus forced a detour of state funds to businesses temporarily closed by a lockdown and workers laid off for weeks.
Taking questions, Mitsotakis said the government's strategy from the beginning was to upgrade the investment environment, said Kathimerini after he last year said starting the 8-billion euro ($8.8 billion) development of the abandoned Hellenikon International Airport site that was stymied by SYRIZA was a top priority for his administration.
“We have come a long way in this direction, we have reduced taxes, we have improved the regulatory framework, the digitalization of public administration has progressed – something that many thought was impossible. And now we have the added advantage that we are considered a safe country with a well-functioning public administration,” 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.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.