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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 – Andreas Georgiou, former head of the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT,) asked the European Court of Human Rights to condemn Greece for a two-year suspended sentence given him over his handling of data during an economic crisis.
Georgiou, who now lives in the US, led ELSTAT from 2010-15 when Greece began seeking what turned into three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($348.19 billion) that came with harsh austerity.
That was needed to prop up an economy brought to the edge of collapse by wild overspending from successive governments and patronage, hiring people by the thousands to get votes.
Georgiou, a noted economist who was backed by the European Union which found no wrongdoing in his assessments, was nevertheless targeted by Greek governments in what he said was an attempt to make him a scapegoat.
He was also twice cleared by courts but without double jeopardy laws to protect people acquitted in Greece, governments kept going after him despite international condemnation and ridicule of them.
He received a two-year suspended sentence over his handling of how ELSTAT’s board of directors had been briefed, was acquitted of that initially but found guilty by an appeals court, said Kathimerini.
He then appealed, unsuccessfully, to the Supreme Court, requesting that it refer a question to the EU court to clarify how European law considers the responsibility of statistics officials.
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.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.