Electronic version of the newspaper Corriere della Sera refers today to Greece’s exit from the heightened surveillance regime. Greece, the public debt crisis is over after 12 years of blood sacrifice and austerity. Milan and adds: “From today, the Greek government will once again make its own decisions regarding the economic policy of the country, with greater freedom of movement, and it will no longer have to seek the approval of Brussels.”

Corriere della Sera at the same time emphasizes that “it closes the chapter in which the population, on the one hand, was forced to accept cuts in wages, pensions and public services in exchange for help in order to survive, and on the other hand, all of Europe was in danger of experiencing collapse, the collapse of its single currency.

The Italian newspaper refers to today’s speech by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Of particular importance is the prime minister’s statement that “what the country has gone through, fortunately, belongs to the past” and his reference to “four years of demagogy”. The phrase, as Corriere emphasizes, “is associated with the government of his predecessor, Alexis Tsipras, and implies that he delayed the healing of the country.”

Finally, an Italian newspaper article cites a statement by European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Paolo Gentiloni, according to which “a strong, united response to the pandemic showed that Europe has learned the lesson of the debt crisis.”

^{Source: APE-MEB}