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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 — The 5th German-Hellenic Economic Forum was launched online on Tuesday by German Ambassador to Greece Ernst Reichel.
Reichel referred to German investments of the last 25 years in the fields of telecommunications infrastructure and the pharmaceutical industry, "which essentially contributed to Germany securing the position of the largest foreign investor in Greece." Above all, he continued, these investments have contributed to the country's modernization, and have secured many jobs in the difficult economic years which Greece has left behind," he noted.
On Twitter, the Ambassador wrote that "emblematic German investments in Greece by Volkswagen, RWE or Fraport go beyond rhetoric, have scale and substance."
New opportunities for attractive investments in Greece are emerging from the economic recovery plan drafted by the government titled "Greece 2.0", in the framework of the European Recovery Fund NextGenerationEU, and "which rightly enjoys great recognition," he stressed. The sectors of digitization and green energy transition are in the forefront, he underlined, and he said "I am glad that the Greek government is represented here today by various ministries in order to talk to businessmen from Germany."
It is rather positive that the Greek government attaches so much significance to economic and technological cooperation with Germany, and that the months-long pandemic has not paralyzed the country's economic transformation and reforms for the improvement of the economic climate, highlighted Reichel.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Greek-German economic relations have an increasing trend, noted Dr. Volker Trier, CEO of Foreign Trade of the Association of German Chambers of Commerce & Industry (DIHK), speaking at the event. This increase could be described as unique and impressive, he continued. German exports to Greece increased by 10 pct and imports to Germany from Greece over 23 pct compared to the previous year. "This is very good and gives us courage to go further, to start from this point and continue," he said characteristically.
The German-Hellenic Economic Forum is organized by the German Hellenic Chamber of Industry & Commerce, with support from the Association of German Chambers of Commerce & Industry (DIHK), under the aegis of the Greek Development & Investments Ministry, and Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA) is a media partner.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.