“Like countries in central and eastern Europe, Greece had a very real sense of the fragility of its health system. That incited the government to take urgent measures earlier than other west European governments which felt a greater sense of complacency about their systems’ ability to handle the crisis.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/05/why-has-eastern-europe-suffered-less-from-coronavirus-than-the-west
“The lockdown was imposed much earlier than in most countries in the western world,” George Pagoulatos, a political economist who heads the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, said. “The government reacted in a very competent manner, listening to the right people and making the right judgement, especially given the lack of a strong precedent but also in terms…
“Maybe it has helped that Greece has been in an almost constant [state of] crisis management since 2010 … we’ve been well past the kind of complacency the economies that have been doing well might allow themselves (…) A society that has undergone hardship for a prolonged period knows when personal sacrifice is necessary or inevitable.” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/greece-flattened-coronavirus-curve-200407191043404.html
The fact that Tsipras managed to stay in power for four years despite breaking his pledges is a testimony to his political talent,” says Professor George Pagoulatos of the Athens University of Economics. “His party, Syriza, now carries an ideology so different from the policies he’s applied that it’s meaningless – the main thing holding the party together is Tsipras,”…
Propos recueillis par Olivier Ubertalli Appelés à voter dimanche aux élections législatives, les Grecs ont voté à 39,7 % des suffrages pour Nouvelle Démocratie le parti de Kyriakos Mitsotakis, qui obtiendra 158 des 300 sièges que compte la Vouli, le parlement grec. Syriza, le parti de gauche d’Alexis Tsipras, n’obtient que 31,5 % des voix et 86 sièges. Malgré la reprise de la croissance depuis 2017, la population semble lassée des…