S O C V ΓΡΑΦΕΙ ΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ nd W ΤΟΥ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΥ E ΑΠΟ ΤΟ 1915 The National Herald 10 2 N anniversa ry www.thenationalherald.com A wEEkLY GrEEk-AmErICAN PuBLICATION 1915-2017 VOL. 20, ISSUE 1029 July 1-7, 2017 c v $1.50 Calamos Wide Ranging Interview with Ambassador Pyatt Acquires Sees excellent Ethniki relations, positive Insurance signs for economy BY Antonis H. Diamataris TNH Staff NEW YORK - Mr. Geofrey Pyatt, the American Ambassador to ATHENS – The Greek-American Greece in an exclusive, wide consortium Calamos-Exin Group ranging interview with The Na - has entered into a long-term tional Herald, laid out with clar - partnership with the National ity the U.S policy toward Bank of Greece after acquiring Greece, characterized as “excel - a 75 percent stake for Ethniki lent” the relations between the Hellenic General Insurance. two countries, and emphasized The deal was for 718 million the mutual benefits deriving euros, with an implied value of from their security cooperation. 958 million euros, subject to ap - He also spoke highly of our proval, officials said. Community and its role as an That came on June 29 after invaluable link between the two a meeting on June 2 looked at countries. three bids, also including the gi - The 45 minutes long inter - ant Chinese Fosun and Gongbao view was conducted in a hotel groups but the Greek-American in mid -Manhattan. consortium offered the best bid The main points of what the for the insurance arm, the coun - Ambassador said - see page 4 try’s biggest insurer with an 18 for the whole interview - are the percent market share. following: The bid also includes repay - On the importance of the ment of a 50-million-euro Suda Base, in Crete: ($56.23 million) perpetual bond …the work that we do to - that NBG had issued for its in - gether at Souda Bay is more im - surance arm, media reports said portant than ever before because earlier. of what’s happening in the east - NBG will retain a 25% stake ern Mediterranean… in Ethniki Insurance, which re - Souda Bay is essential, it’s an mains NBG's exclusive bancas - TNH/COSTAS BEJ essential asset for both coun - surance provider under a new Geoffrey Pyatt, on the right, the U.S. Ambassador to Greece during the lengthy interview he granted to Antonis H. Diamataris, 10-year partnership agreement the Publisher / Editor of The National Herald, during his visit to New York City. Continued on page 5 for life, savings and non-life in - surance products. “The Ethniki Insurance deal reinforces our commitment to the Southern European financial New Chicago Metropolitan to Be Elected on July 6 Renewed services market as part of our Pan-European strategy. EXIN has the expertise to lead a renais - By Theodore Kalmoukos of Denver, Alexios of Atlanta, of the three. The reason that the considered the only Ecclesiastical Cyprus Unity sance for the industry across the Nicholas of Detroit, Savas of election is not done directly by Eparchy and thus Demetrios is region,” said John Koudounis CHICAGO, IL – On July 6, the Pittsburgh, Gerasimos of San the Archdiocesan Synod is be - the only ruling shepherd (poime - Co-Founder of EXIN. election of the new metropolitan Francisco, and Evangelos of New cause the Archdiocese is not an narhis) ruling hierarch. When he Talks Fellow Co-Founder John of Chicago will take place in suc - Jersey. autonomous church, but belongs visits the Metropolises on Sun - Calamos added: “I have been cession of the recently departed The process is as follows: to the Patriarchate. That is also days or of Feast Days, for exam - looking for opportunities to in - Metropolitan Iakovos. They will select the trirprosopon, why the Metropolitans do not ple in Boston, Pittsburgh, At - TNH Staff vest in Greece for quite some His Eminence Archbishop it will be sent to the Ecumenical commemorate the name of Arch - lanta, he is commemorated as time. We are delighted our Geron Demetrios of America, Patriarchate, whose own Synod bishop Demetrios when they poimenarhis. In that respect, the A secret Turkish offer over president of the Holy Eparchial presided by Ecumenical Patriarch Liturgize, but they commemo - local metropolitans are a mixture security if Cyprus is divided Continued on page 5 Synod of the Greek Orthodox Bartholomew will elect one of rate instead the name of the ec - of titular metropolitans and aux - were rejected by President Nicos Archdiocese, has duly notified the three, preferably and tradi - umenical patriarch. iliary bishops. It is really an ec - Anastasiades in renewed talks the members of the Synod and tionally the one who gains the The Metropolitanate system clesiological travesty. aimed at bringing together the also the Ecumenical Patriarchate. majority of the Archdiocesan as it has been set up today is a LIST OF CANDIDATES island split by a 1974 Turkish WITh ThIS ISSuE The Synod is comprised of Synod’s votes. strange and problematic one to On June 13, Demetrios sent invasion. Demetrios, along with Metropol - Of course, the Patriarchate say the least, because the Arch - Anastasiades was meeting itans Methodios of Boston, Isaiah has the privilege to elect anyone diocese of America as a whole is Continued on page 3 with Turkish-Cypriot President Mustafa Akinci in the Swiss re - sort of Crans-Montana after ear - lier negotiations in Geneva fell apart when Turkey insisted on The View from World’s Favorite Santorini keeping its 35,000-strong army in the northern third it occupies and also wanted to militarily in - By Andy Dabilis tervene again when it wanted. Turkish President Recep Artemis Nomikos has seen Tayyip Erdogan, who refuses to perhaps more of Santorini’s recognize Cyprus and bars its famed sunsets that anyone else: ships and planes, also is plan - 70 years’ worth from the tiny ning to send an energy research cave house on the volcanic cliff - vessel into Cypriot waters where side of Imerovigli where he has the legitimate government - a lived since 1947, seeing the vil - member of the European Union lage – and island – transformed Turkey wants to join - has li - into a tourist mecca so censed international companies renowned that it is the number to drill, including an American one choice in the world this firm. year. All the talks are being con - Nomikos, 95, sits outside un - der an overhang of the brilliant Continued on page 9 white rock amid a labyrinth and warren of winding narrow trails, smiling and greeting other Greeks who know him by his Greek straw hat and permanent spot, Unusual not minding the endless parade of people who gaze at him, who Filmmakers came from other lands to be el - Heat Wave bow-to-elbow for a once-in-a- lifetime view of the imploded Shine in LA volcano, the Caldera, on an islet Hits Greece below, and capture the orange sun going down on the horizon. By Vasilis Papoutsis For him, it’s an everday-in-a- TNH Staff lifetime view if only he can see LOS ANGELES, CA – The Los TNH/ANDY DABILIS ATHENS – With temperatures Angeles Film Festival (LAFF), Continued on page 9 The crowds are suffocating in the narrow confines of the capital of Fira. near 100 Fahrenheit on June 29 now in its 23rd year, has cham - – and expected to go as high as pioned independence in visual 107-111 degrees the next few storytelling and has supported days, Greece – in the midst of a a community of artists who em - record-breaking tourist season body diversity and innovation Remorseful The Successful SNFestival 2017 – was under a heat lamp as peo - by assisting them in bringing ple scrambled to find cool some - their stories to the screen and where. building an audience for their Alleged Killer TNH Staff ties, performances, magic project, through a grant, total - With virtually no municipal projects. shows, lectures, and activities ing €630 million ($861 million). pools and many public beaches In a festival with a global of N.Y. Greek ATHENS – The successful Sum - for the whole family. The wings are also there, but in blocked off by private clubs re - reach that stretches from foot - mer Nostos Festival (SNFestival) The Stavros Niarchos Foun - order for this project to ‘fly,’ it quiring payment for entry, ball fields of a nearby East LA 2017 concluded on June 25 dation (SNF) as part of its needs all of you. And you have health officials recommended high school to the icy waters of TNH Staff with music, dance, a spectacular broader philanthropic activity proved this with your presence. staying out of the sun – even for Greenland, several Greek film - fireworks show, and by renew - and its continuous support to Last June, 120,000 people vis - tourists flocking to the islands makers and artists have seen NEW YORK – A 24-year-old ing its promise for next year. the Stavros Niarchos Foundation ited the Festival. Since the day and beaches – drinking fluids their projects acknowledged for New York man charged in the More than 140,000 visitors, 413 Cultural Center (SNFCC), re - we opened the Center again in and to avoid exercise or hard their excellence. stabbing death of 20-year-old Greek and international artists, turns once a year, every June, August, to this day, 1,300,000 work outdoors. Most notable are two films, Manos Ikonomidis said he was 4,500 runners, more than 75 as an active participant, to the people have visited the SNFCC. Beaches close to Athens – Don’t Come Back from the the victim of his girlfriend’s lie, unique events, 5 stages and home it created for the benefit This is its real strength and, with ironically among the worst in a Moon, based on a Dean since it was she who said she multiple play areas were of all people, organizing and this strength, the Center can re - country whose beaches are had been raped instead of what brought together at the SNFes - supporting through an exclusive ally continue to ‘fly.’ This Center rated second best in the world Continued on page 6 police called a consensual mé - tival, June 18-25.
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