The government took on the challenge of the pandemic with a series of right moves: Choosing trustworthy managers and acting quickly to avoid the worst it protected the health of the citizenry and the stability of the National Health System.
The decision on whether to re-open primary schools has been deferred until 1 June. There are conflicting opinions about how advisable this is.
A loss of 250,000 jobs at small and very small businesses in all sectors is projected and nearly fifteen percent of them will never re-open.
The High Court delivered its decision just as the next and largest ECB bond-buying programme to address the problems borne of the coronavirus crisis is being launched.
enormous efforts will be made to keep the economy standing, as long as the government provides the necessary tools and the productive forces devote all their energy.
The government advisory scientific panel based on the data, new knowledge, and the deep conviction that the disease is receding approved the gradual lifting of the pandemic lockdown.
Who is making Greece a laggard in areas where it could be a pioneer? It is against these forces of delay that the battle must be won.
Journalists who covered Greece's bankruptcy and the assumption of responsibility by the country and its people were treated as enemies of the people.
We don’t know if there will be a second wave of the epidemic and we cannot predict how dynamic, coordinated, and effective the EU’s response to the economic shock will be.
Parties are vying over which policies are best to implement and over the percentage or amount of increase in state spending on strengthening the Greek NHS.
Unconstrained surveillance is the high road to dictatorship
Nixon's laconic and vacuous response to the Great Wall of China revealed the sense of awkwardness which Western leaders still exhibit in deciding how to deal with their main global economic competitor,
This should be the start of broader reforms upon which one can rebuild the relationship between citizens and the state.
The oft-neglected primary sector has exhibited endurance and may be among the few that can do well in these extraordinary circumstances.
The epidemiologist wants to see how the return of students to school impacts on the rate of spread of Sars Cov-2 in the community, cites research he says shows child-adult transmission or vice versa is negligible.
We learned in the recent past that sterile disputes and blind clashes contribute absolutely nothing to those who conceived of them or to citizens.
if protective personal hygiene measures are implemented, social distancing is enforced, masks are worn in closed spaces, and common use surfaces are disinfected we can avoid a new outbreak of the pandemic in summer.
The late archbishop Seraphim famously quipped at the time that the Church of Greece is like a piece of coal. If you touch it when lit you are burned and if you touch it when cold you are soiled.
Given the symbiotic relationship of health and economy in this case (and in general though it was long sidelined) what is needed is an inter-professional committee that could forge cohesive and comprehensive strategies.
Under no circumstances should the government allow even a suspicion that it will seek to serve partisan special interests or social and professional groups that are pro-government.
Medical experts stress that the re-opening of society and the economy must be carefully controlled and based on rules enforced with the same sense of discipline as during the lockdown.
'The careful opening of the economy is a risk we must take now..Faithful implementation of rules should be universal. Why now? We are in a better state than in February and we saved lives and bought time,'said Deputy Minister to the PM Akis Skertsos.
Many things will change after the quarantine is lifted, such as the establishment of shift work for the first time ever in the public sector.
The economic toll arising from the pandemic will be higher for Greece than for other EU countries because it relies so heavily on tourism and services more generally as well as on transport and consumption.
Portuguese referee of AEK - Aris, Soares Dias, still cannot forget what he experienced in the semifinal of the OAKA Cup.
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