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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 ranked twentieth among 33 European countries in terms of electricity rates, according to data from the monthly Household Energy Price Index (HEPI) survey on retail electricity prices in European countries. The survey is being conducted by the energy regulators of Austria and Hungary and the company Vaasa ETT.
According to the report published on the website https://www.energypriceindex.com/price-data, despite the large increases that have occurred recently due to the international crisis, the average consumer price for electricity in Greece (Athens) was in April at 21.04 cents per kilowatt-hour compared to 27.48 which is the average in the 27 EU member states. In the first place is London with 65.61 cents per kilowatt-hour, followed by Copenhagen (53.84 cents) and Vienna (48.81 cents).
The report records a decrease in the price in Greece last month by 11% due to the higher subsidy from the government.
Regarding natural gas, according to the report, the consumer price in our country in April was slightly higher than the EU average (13.24 cents per kilowatt hour compared to 12.69) and is ranked 12th. The most expensive country is the Netherlands (Amsterdam) with 30.76 cents per kilowatt hour, followed by Vienna (24.5 cents) and Stockholm (22.86 cents). In contrast to electricity, in the gas sector there is an increase of 37% as it is pointed out that state subsidies only partially offset the increase in prices.
According to government announcements, the adoption of a new package of measures for the support of energy consumers is imminent, which is considered to include maximum prices, subsidies or a combination of the two options, with application in wider consumption scales, over 300 kilowatt hours per month subsidised until today.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
ΒΟSTON - The newly-elected Metropolitan Iakovos of Mexico, who was enthroned on Saturday, March 16th at the Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Mexico City, gave his first interview as Metropolitan to The National Herald, which he described as a "historic newspaper," one he has known since childhood, as have his close relatives.
BALTIMORE - Authorities have released the identities of the two people recovered from the water Wednesday morning at the site of the Baltimore bridge collapse.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.
ATHENS – Greece recorded a huge improvement in the business environment rankings of The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) among 82 countries worldwide.