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Greeks “brag” will show will, writes New York Times – Mitsotaki’s leadership is decisive, Guardian comments – “Summer has been saved” celebrates Bild
Last week, during the first 24 hours of quarantine removal and the gradual partial restoration of social and economic life in the country, the head of the scientific team studied and proposed the plan to deal with the pandemic, Sotiris Tsiodras, He stated that “many times in medicine, the benefits are what you don’t see. Only deaths are visible. “Of course, the good scientist was addressing the internal public, the Greeks, a part of whom had already begun to criticize, apparently exaggerating the measures taken. However, outside the borders, where the report Daily contained a few hundred dead and a few thousand patients, Greece was not just a “good example” but a “phenomenon.” A “phenomenon” in which the average Greek citizen became international consciousness, at some 24 hours, for the “rebellious and unstable Balkans”, in a “perfectly disciplined and conscious citizen”.
In this way, the main media in the world faced Greece and the Greeks, who managed to limit the first wave of the pandemic of the new crown and have the lowest possible losses, with a health system that, – bad lies – was troublesome. .
The German Bild, In your report Thomas Block, Angelika Hellemann, Albert Link States, among others:
“If we listen to the Greek Minister of Tourism Thanks Theocharis (49 years old), then, in the summer of 2020, has not yet been lost: “Our goal is from July 1 to allow tourists to enter the country again,” Theocharis tells Bild am Sonntag.
And in this he especially hopes to have the support of the country, from which most tourists traditionally come to Greece: “The Germans are our best tourist partner, we love them!” To get the waves of tourists back in, the Greeks are working hard on a plan, which is expected to be finalized next week.
Tourists will take a quick crown test before traveling, hotels will reduce their available rooms (50% in question) and will be thermometric before boarding the ship. This will be the holiday season. This plan is not certain to work. There is still a travel warning in Germany and the possibility of an extension remains open. But Greek plans also face objections. Because Athens is betting (like Croatia and Austria) on agreements with individual countries.
“We will need bilateral agreements,” says Theocharis. “It is unlikely that a European solution will be achieved because each country is in a different stage of the pandemic.”
Other thoughts prevail in the European Parliament: “When everyday life returns, when there is relaxation, there should be no discrimination, not even first and second class Europeans. Everyone should be treated equally, “says Manfred Weber (47, CSU), leader of K.O. of the PPE, in Bild am Sonntag.
Is “travel certification” approaching?
“I want to save the European summer of 2020. And that is why it is important to establish the common European standards of hygiene and protection as quickly as possible, a kind of ‘travel certification’ for transport and accommodation. This has to be done now in a few weeks. “
Weber’s plan is: open inside, close outside. “In order to reopen all borders within the EU, we need to keep the EU’s external borders closed to non-Europeans until they are younger, possibly even for some countries, until a vaccine is found.”
The fact that p. Italy cut its air connections with China, but not Germany and other countries, it was a “fatal mistake”. On Wednesday, the European Commission with Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) the necessary norms and standards of protection will be established. According to Bild am Sonntag, six European commissioners are working on the decision. The German government shares Weber’s opinion.
“Openings can only serve as European solutions,” said the German government’s Tourism Commissioner. Thomas Bareiß (45, CDU) and creates hope: “I am optimistic that if the number of new cases continues to decrease, we will not be able to cancel the summer holidays in our neighboring European countries. We are already having relevant conversations with governments. “
Guardian: successful treatment of the crown by Greece
The British Guardian and the Helena smith broadcasts: “Greeks are baffled by Britain’s crowning chaos as they lift restrictive measures after 150 dead”
“Still resilient after timely and stringent measures, Greece can now expect the summer tourist season to start in early July,” the caption said. The article compares the treatment of the coronavirus by Greece with the handling of the subject by Great Britain mainly through the perspective of the Greeks.
In the weeks leading up to March 23, when the center-right Greek government decided to suspend flights to the United Kingdom, the demand for air tickets to return the large Greek community in Britain to Greece reached unprecedented heights.
The Greeks, like many other Europeans, have been surprised and alarmed at the handling of the crisis in public health by Johnson Administration. Britain’s chaotic strategy, its initially relaxed approach and the large number of deaths is mistrusted in a country that has managed to keep the virus under control, despite the exhaustion it has suffered from the debt crisis of almost ten years.
“Johnson’s treatment of the pandemic is almost Mediterranean, frivolous and sloppy,” said financial analyst Antonis Papagiannidis. “One cannot help thinking that people have been left to rot, that the interests of the economy have been prioritized over health.” In the absence of responsible leadership, the British received conflicting messages. At first they were told “no problem”, then “there is a problem”. This is not a way to behave towards responsible citizens. They should have been informed of the real dangers and allowed to face them with their legendary composure. “
Unlike Britain, where 31,000 people died from the disease, Greece has one of the lowest death rates in Europe, with 150 deaths and fewer than 2,700 confirmed cases of coronavirus after strict measures to curb the epidemic. This is a great change for a nation that is generally associated with political disobedience and incompetence, which are the result of a dysfunctional state. As Britain begins this week with uncertainty over whether the restrictive measures will be significantly eased, the Greeks are preparing beaches and hotels for the tourist season, which they hope will start in July, as the restrictions will be gradually lifted.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has so far resisted the temptation to boast. But as epidemiologists continue to talk about normalizing the curve, polls show that support for their government has reached record levels. Pride has replaced anger and shame, emotions that prevailed in the terrifying experience of approaching bankruptcy. Confidence in the capacity of state institutions is also said to have returned. According to analysts, the resilience the Greeks gained during the crisis may have prepared them to deal with the pandemic. But Mitsotakis, a former banker who came to power less than a year ago, is credited with leading the way, shutting down the economy, a major blow by the time he has just started to recover, and complying with medical advice since the beginning. The Greek leader realized that the country’s health system, which had been hit by austerity, would quickly collapse if the virus were not reduced. Infectious disease experts have been urged to consult the government, taking a central position in daily updates. “He is a man of detail, reading every study, every new investigation of progress against the virus,” said a colleague. “He finds out about the Greeks who hold high positions in pharmaceutical companies abroad and addresses them.” There was no room for frills, theater, and insults or “feelings that one is invulnerable” that often limit nations with an imperialist past. “We were aware of the limits of Greece.”
Johnson’s illness, his dramatic hospitalization, and the fact that he was so close to death were known in Greece, where many draw parallels to the tragedies of ancient writers so loved by the classic British Prime Minister. “In a way, what happened to him is reminiscent of the old drama,” Papagiannidis said. “There is an element of purification, atonement, that is hard not to notice, but what is happening in Britain fills the Greeks with feelings of pain and sorrow.”
New York Times: the reasons why the Greeks managed to limit the pandemic
In successful greek recipe The New York Times reports on the health crisis and the small number of crowned deaths in our country, which in turn explains how Greece fared after the financial crisis.
Titled “Hardened European states show resilience and adaptability to fight virus“And subtitles”In general, countries like Croatia and Greece, which took early steps to stop the spread, have received help from citizens’ cooperation, overwhelmed by recent harsh experiences, war or economic disaster.“The article in the US media refers to the reasons for the successful treatment of the pandemic in our country, but also in Croatia.
A lengthy article / response by Matina Stevi-Gridneff from Brussels shows how Greece (like Croatia) has managed, despite its size and the economic crisis that has plagued it for almost a decade, to successfully counter the pandemic. and mobilize citizens. of.
The columnist points out that when the crown spread throughout the world, the paradox appeared, richest and most resource-rich states fail -in general- to successfully face the coronavirus pandemic. In Europe, for example, the disease has wreaked havoc in three of its largest economies: Britain, France, and Italy. But the poorest European states adopted and imposed severe restrictions from the start, he insisted on them, and so far they have done better and reduced the virus.
These countries, some of which are now carefully opening up their economies and societies, are the ones with strong resilience-adaptability reserves, rooted in relatively recent difficulties.
Compared to what their peoples suffered not so long ago, the strict blockades were less painful, and this obviously contributed to their broader social acceptance.
These states include many of the blocks of the former eastern communist countries, but also Greece and Croatia, where the authorities are. moderately optimistic about people’s resilience his adversity, writes Matina Stevi.
And he goes on to say that Oxford University developed on the basis of the different responses to the pandemic, a scale, in an effort to classify the severity of the measures taken by governments.
It is more serious in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.
More specifically for Greece: Much of the article is devoted to: In Greece, with new memories of the debt crisis, the possibility of one in three being unemployed was nothing new. Greece, shortly after Croatia, knew it strict closing on May 4, passing, like other Eastern European states, a gradual return to normality in a certain sense.
The publication quotes the EKPA professor of psychology Frosty Motti-Stefanidi, specialized in the resilience and adaptability of societies to periods and situations of intense stress and prolonged adversity.
The scientist points out that in the case of the crown pandemic, the resilience alone (of the population) does not explain why some states have handled this crisis better: the positive attitude (of the crisis) comes from the fact that that citizens believed in government measures, a fact. which led to compliance, obedience and trust. And as I added, resistance and rigor go hand in hand to address the spread of the pandemic.
In Greece, a relatively small number of them were registered. 151 deaths so far, only 1.4 / 100 thousand, and the EKPA professor credits this data to the government, which mobilized citizens with an honest and convincing approach, so that the strict restrictive measures (confinement) are respected.
The Greeks showed resistance
In the face of economic collapse in Europe and in other parts of the world, many Greeks showed stoicism, taking lessons from the last decade, when the country lost a quarter of its economy.
According to the latest forecast data, the greek economy It will drop 9.7% this year, the worst recession in the European Union.
Then the article quotes the testimony of a body care worker who experienced the crisis after its collapse. Lehman Brothers in 2008, when it took her three years to rebuild her business, but also in the subsequent crisis that affected Greece, when she was forced to be out of work for another three years. Madam the. Apostolidis, who in addition to his 15-year-old son cares for his parents and several relatives, says that, strangely, he was optimistic when this new adversity appeared.
««We’ve been through a lot, we’ve toughened up, so I think we can rebuild … We thought we were in bad shape before the financial crisis, but now we see we’re adjustingHe says.
The article is accompanied at the top by a large photo from the point of view of the Syntagma Square license last March, with the note in the title: “Greece set an excellent example in the fight against the pandemic».
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