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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 – After being hindered for years by a clientelist system rewarding political allies but holding down entrepreneurs, Greek startup companies are starting to blossom, bringing in $1 billion in investments in 2021.
Deputy Development & Investment Minister Yiannis Tsakiris told the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency (AMNA) that, “Greek startups stand out for their high innovation and human potential levels”.
He said that sources of funding came from the Hellenic Development Bank of Investments (EATE) and the Q-Equity program, which allocates nearly 400 million euros ($403.42 million) through the Recovery Fund to new funds in private equity/venture capital companies that will invest in Greek innovative enterprises.
Despite the effect and aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said startups in the country and across the European Union aren’t being affected significantly and that there were 21 companies with a worth of more than $1 billion starting in the second quarter of 2022, among a total of 187 new ventures.
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.