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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 dilemma for Greek society once again is between austerity and anti-austerity. The Mitsotakis government chooses austerity,” main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesperson Nasos Iliopoulos said on Sunday on Open television.
“The Mitsotakis government is working for the profiteering power suppliers in energy, the private clinics in health and the SEV [employers’ federation] in labour,” Iliopoulos said.
He criticised the government’s record in response to the cost-of-living crisis, pointing out that “natural gas in Greece has increased by 220 pct when the average in the EU is 62 pct,” and saying that this “amounts to looting on the part of the Mitsotakis government.”
He also noted that “Greece has the largest monthly increase in inflation” and said this was due to the government’s refusal to lower the Special Consumption Tax on fuel or VAT on staple foods.
Talking about the alternative proposed by SYRIZA-PA, Iliopoulos said this did not mean spending more money but “a different model”, such as uncoupling the price of natural gas from power and imposing a cap.
“In September alone, we had 500 million euros in windfall profits in energy and the windfall profits of companies generated up until July have still not been taxed!” he said.
Commenting on the latest workplace accident, he accused the government of having destroyed the labour inspectorate so that it was unable to do its job, criticised fining the unemployed, while he again called for the activation of a 2019 framework of EU sanctions in response to Turkish provocativeness.
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.