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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.
Cypriots who lost a bundle when the government confiscated nearly half their bank accounts to save itself want the European Court of Justice to get it back.
The EU court will hear the case brought by Cypriot bank depositors protesting the so-called “haircut,” they say stole their money and was legalized bank robbery, the Sunday Mail reported.
Alper Riza, a Turkey Cypriot lawyer, along with Christopher Paschalides and Antonis Paschalides will represent the appellants in Luxembourg.
Riza said the appeal is of “huge importance” to many Cypriot depositors who lost billions in the 2013 ‘haircut.’
“The case is also of general importance in EU law, and the reason why the appeals will be heard by the Grand Chamber of the ECJ comprising 15 top judges is because previous case law is unclear whether the European Commission and the ECB act as EU institutions or in a free-standing capacity when performing their tasks under the 2012 European Stabilisation Mechanism Treaty,” he said.
Reneging on a campaign pledge, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades authorized the bank deposit seizures shortly after taking office in March, 2013.
He was complying with demands from international lenders and said he had to save the country’s economy and the banks from their own mismanagement, although he also reneged on a vow to hold them responsible.
The appellants’ argue that the confiscations are unlawful because there was no law in the EU or Cyprus allowing the government to take the money.
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.