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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.
While some facets of a 2019 deal that brought about the name North Macedonia for Greece's neighbor still haven't been implemented, the two countries want to step up cooperation in a number of areas, including trade.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias went to North Macedonia's capital Skopje to meet his counterpart, Bujar Osmani to find ways to better economic exchanges of goods.
But Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hasn't moved, as he said, to stop North Macedonian companies from labeling their products as Macedonian – the real Macedonia in Greece abuts North Macedonia, and Greek companies have complained there is confusion over the labeling.
Formerly known as The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM,) the country renamed itself North Macedonia in a deal made with Greece's former ruling anti-nationalist Radical Left SYRIZA.
Greece also backed North Macedonia in getting into NATO and said it supports its neighbor's efforts to get into the European Union, which has been stalled amid a number of issues, including corruption.
After talks with Osmani, Dendias said Greece's support for North Macedonia's EU aspirations depends on full implementation of the name deal that still hasn't happened.
Dendias said North Macedonia has taken “important steps” in that direction, but he added that “there remains significant ground for correct implementation,” speaking in tender diplomatic tones.
As part of the name change deal, the North Macedonia government implemented some practical changes, including altering its official letterhead. It started issuing passports and identity cards with the North Macedonia name – but the documents indicate its citizens are Macedonian, which is Greek.
A new obstacle to North Macedonia’s EU accession bid has emerged. Its eastern neighbor Bulgaria – like Greece, already an EU member – opposes the country’s membership, citing a bilateral dispute over history and national identity that remain unresolved.
(Material from the Associated Press was used in this report)
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.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.