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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 – It wasn’t said whether they will be allowed into the country during the coronavirus scare, but wealthy Chinese investors scooping up properties in Greek cities to get Golden Visas that come with residency permits and a European Union passport are expected to bring a bonanza of one billion euros ($1.08 billion.)
That was reported by the business newspaper Naftemporiki on how attractive the visas remain as a cheap and easy way for the rich of countries outside the bloc to buy their way into a passport allowing unimpeded travel among 27 nations.
Greece has temporarily closed its visa office in China, keeping away tourists from that country for now even as investors are lining up to get the visas despite some 35 saying they will sue because they’ve put in the money but waited two years to get the documents.
Under the scheme, investors who pony up at least 250,000 euros ($270,092) to buy property or through other investments can get the visa while even Greeks of the diaspora have to wait up to two years to get residency permits despite having heritage ties.
Greece’s 250,000-euro figure is among the cheapest, compared to one million euros ($1.08 million) for Ireland or 500,000 euros ($540,00) for Spain while in Turkey it is $500,000. Cyprus, plagued with complaints it hasn’t vetted applicants for money laundering or criminal activity, also sells the visas cheap.
Greece’s New Democracy said it wants to move beyond Golden Visas and residency permits to selling Greek citizenship outright to foreigners who make the country their tax base, despite tax rates up to 45 percent on their personal income.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
CALIFORNIA - The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.
NEW YORK — The third day of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial concluded Thursday after Trump's lawyers got their first chance to question a witness on the stand.
ATLANTA — As Donald Trump seeks a return to the White House, criminal charges are piling up for the people who tried to help him stay there in 2020 by promoting false theories of voter fraud.
ATHENS - Voters should see the whole picture when they go to cast their ballot in the European Parliament elections on June 9, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on Thursday.