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Editorial Ta Nea: Lives must be saved

The insistence of certain political forces that 17 November commemorative gatherings and marches should take place imperils public health.

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Editorial To Vima: The darkest hour is just before dawn

'We are living nights of Apocalypse. People are dying torturously and totally alone. We cannot catch up with our patient case load. We are fighting against time,' said one doctor.

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Editorial: Deterrence

The experience of the first wave of the pandemic proved that citizens themselves possess the strongest weapon to confront the pandemic.

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Editorial To Vima: A battle on two fronts

The government must prepare for the new socio-economic realities that will emerge once the public health crisis has been transcended. As distant as it seems, that day is no so far off.

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Editorial To Vima: Timeline of a lockdown in the making

The government was forced into a lockdown that just a few weeks ago the PM declared would result in tragic repercussions on the economy and grave social injustices.

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Editorial To Vima: Better late than never

There have been countless incidents of violence over the years on university campuses that have been addressed with knee-jerk, timid, and ineffective initiatives.

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Editorial To Vima: Greece’s great victory

Without exaggeration, in prosecuting Golden Dawn Greece has demonstrated internationally the value of unalloyed democratic principles in a world confronted with deep transitions.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Warning signs

A government that rests on its laurels and political advantage is in danger of becoming its own victim as In politics inertia, missteps, and omissions that fester will not be pardoned

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Editorial To Vima: Messages from a polling snapshot

The government appears to have entirely occupied the political playing field with no opponent. The only danger the ruling party may possibly face is from within.

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Editorial To Vima: Who will get off the train?

The problems the government faces are due largely to the personal strategies of ministers stab each other in the back on a daily basis.

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Editorial: The opponent

New Democracy's only opponent is itself and that is no small thing. The only trap that endangers it is that of developing the arrogance of power.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Opportunity

The government must spend EU pandemic recovery funding prudently to resolve political and economic dysfunctions that have lingered for decades and thus restructure Greece’s economic model.

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Editorial Ta Nea: The advance of COVID-19

The one thing that is certain is that the virus is advancing with the number of daily cases steadily above 300 and doctors are warning that hospitals are under severe pressure.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Disaster restoration

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has often declared that he is a liberal. This is a case in which the government must not fear offering state aid.

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Editorial To Vima: Beyond a new lockdown

One must effectively monitor specific central Athens neighbourhoods where high rates of transmission have been detected so as to stem the spread of the virus.

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Editorial To Vima: The end of illusions

The dilemma “economy or public health” has returned to the forefront in a dramatic fashion as not only did the “invisible enemy” not retreat over the summer but rather it returned with even greater force

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Editorial Ta Nea: Self-criticism

A courageous and bold party should not have needed [SYRIZA MP and ex-education minister] Nikos Filis to defend its history.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Judiciary

Let us protect the prestige of institutions and politicians and let the entire system (and its branches that tried to push the country back to dark times) come to light.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Let everything come to light

The political system must shed light on all aspects of the recent revelations in such a way that will allow citizens to regain trust in state organs and institutions and in politics in general.

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Editorial To Vima: The tourism balance sheet comes at the end

Certain government members in an effort to personally capitalise on the public health success are creating a climate of unjustified complacency.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Standing

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.

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Editorial To Vima: Time to rally together

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.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Pride and joy

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.

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Sotiris Tsiodras: Apologia pro vita sua

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.

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Editorial To Vima: The uncertain but necessary leap toward ‘unlocking’ Greece

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.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Recipes

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.

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Top marks for Greek coronavirus management from TIME magazine

Like most of the international press, the magazine attributes the country’s success to sweeping restrictive measures that began well before those of other European countries.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Clearing

We must show strength and virtues such as patience to proceed with the greatest degree of safety as we approach a gradual lifting of the restrictive measures.

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Editorial To Vima: The price of loosening pandemic measures

For Greece, which by all accounts has done well since the start of this public health crisis, it would be suicidal to blow everything out of the water due to laxity.

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Editorial Ta Nea:Herculean labours

The Greeks still quote an aphorism that has remained in the language unchanged from the time of Solon in antiquity: Rejoice in nothing before it is over. It would be wrong for one to believe that a positive outcome in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic is foreordained. Yet at the same time it would be fatalistic for one not to acknowledge that Greece has already accomplished a significant labour and passed a critical hurdle. It has become a model in its handling of the public health crisis for countries which have a long record of organisation, infrastructure, and discipline. Moreover, Greece’s 10-year economic depression has deprived the country of the requisite means to grapple with the current public health crisis with a full arsenal of weapons. It is precisely for that reason that the government acted with exceptional speed and foresight. One should acknowledge this and not issue fatalistic pronouncements that the government turned a weakness into fuel to gain advantage. To paraphrase the famous quote by the late statesman Constantine Karamanlis who declared that “We are doing well abroad”, implying that the domestic picture is not so rosy, one might say today that we are doing well at home. That is the overwhelmingly prevailing sense in public opinion as 86 percent of respondents in a recent surveys approve of the partial lockdown and 67 percent approve of the government’s emergency economic measures [Pulse polling company, 2 April]. These numbers are very significant as they reflect that the crisis is helping to restore citizens’ trust in institutions and the state. Did we need a crisis to begin restoring that necessary trust, to succeed in that labour? The answer lies in yet another ancient aphorism: “There is nothing bad that comes without some good”, which is to say every cloud has a silver lining. Greece .has become a model in its handling of the public health crisis for countries which have a long record of organisation, infrastructure, and discipline.

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More types of busineses to be included in economic stimulus package

With the pandemic likely to decimate Greek tourism, which is widely viewed as the engine of the economy, the tourism ministry will launch an intensive campaign to attract foreign tourists to Greece,

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Editorial Ta Nea: Optimism

The current public health crisis is different in nature than the economic crisis that Greece has already suffered, yet the memory of it is too fresh to repeat the same mistakes.

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Government orders seasonal hotels, tourist facilities to remain closed through 30 April

The closures ordered by the government - which pertain to seasonal tourist facilities that have not opened yet – aside from hotels covers camping facilities, youth hostels, condohotels, and furnished villas and homes.

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Editorial To Vima: Crucial crash tests

The coronavirus threat (the first case in Greece was identified today in Thessaloniki) poses a huge challenge to the National Health System and to what is ostensibly the government’s strong suit – the recovery of the Greek economy.

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Greek government Legislative Act to give authorities expansive powers to handle COVID-19 outbreak

The Greek print and electronic media have focused on the need for the public to remain calm and composed in the not unlikely event that cases arise in the country.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Profile

French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told Ta Nea about plans to intensify French investment in Greece in various sectors, from energy to tourism and infrastructure.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Crisis

Provocative statements from Ankara certainly stir concerns and Turkey in the 21st century appears to be adopting an ever more aggressive stance toward its neighbours.

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Defying criticism government to construct closed migrant centres, seeks Berlin’s support for burden-sharing

'They must know that we don’t want them here,” New Democracy MP Konstantinos Bogdanos, among the party’s most right-wing members said of economic migrants.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Duty

The government and the main opposition crossed swords over the July, 2018, wildfire which claimed 102 lives in Attica’s seaside resort of Mati.

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Editorial To Vima: The insurance ‘reform’

Experts doubt whether the feasibility study on insurance system reform presents credible projections and guarantees regarding the viability of the system.

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Editorial To Vima: Tough decisions

The PM and his government aim to internationalise the issue by stressing that it is a European problem but expectations that other EU member-states will cooperate are merely pious wishes.

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UNHCR pushes Greece to relocate migrants to mainland, says EU must shoulder its share of burden

UNHCR has been appealing to the Greek government to use emergency measures to expedite its plans to transfer a greater number of asylum-seekers to appropriate accommodation on the mainland.  More than 36,000 asylum seekers now in reception centres designed for 5,400 people, according to the UNHCR spokesman.

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Editorial Ta Nea: Delusions

Heightened governmental responsibility and social cohesion are required in order to effectively grapple with the migrant-refugee crisis.

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Editorial Ta Nea Readiness

The success of the refugee burden-sharing plan will depend on the readiness of the Greek government to manage the crisis and on the efficiency of competent authorities.

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Editorial To Vima: Raise wages!

The government is entering the talks with trade unions having pledged bebefore to support wage hikes in 2020 that are double the country’s growth rate.

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Editorial To Vima: Better to remain silent

It would best if members of the government speak in a measured manner with the right timing and only when they have something substantial to say.

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Editorial To Vima: Consensus needed on refugee crisis here and now

The effort to internationalise an issue that by its very nature is supranational and yet is treated as a domestic problem is a step in the right direction.

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Editorial To Vima: The prime minister’s error

The impasse in Greek football is the result of the government’s choices and whoever cannot see that is simply turning a blind eye.

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Plans for floating barrier to stem migrant flows from Turkey under fire

It will rise 50 centimeters above sea level and carry light marks that will make it visible at night, a government document inviting vendors to submit offers said

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Editorial Ta Nea: Blunder

One can choose to justify governmental fears, but a government that violates the fundamental principles of a well-governed state is unjustifiable.

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Editorial To Vima: Prime Minister, success and respect are earned with bold moves

Ruling party MPs were personally pressurised and the political leadership was confronted with verbal attacks and curses from circles which in previous years acted on the margins of legality.

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Editorial: The trap of fatigue

The opposition’s policy is to seep into the fissures that government policy creates in society.

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Editorial To Vima: Beyond Koukaki

Police attempted to get the consent of a family who were neighbours to enter their home and when they did not receive it they went berserk –infringing on and offending the asylum of the home and citizens’ rights.

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Editorial To Vima: The Sirens of populism

The PM personally assumed the responsibility and cost by avoiding pledges, a climate of handouts, and supplementing the income of electorally crucial social group and forces.

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Time passes by challenging the Mitsotakis government’s sense of consequence

FIve months after coming to power the government showed that there are no automatic solutions. One cannot press a button and have everything coordinated to solve problems.