New government’s international image a work in progress

International coverage of the July 7 snap election highlighted certain interesting things about how the world sees us. It is clear that a significant percentage of correspondents and columnists from major global media organizations, influenced by the pragmatic turnaround of Alexis Tsipras and above all by the Prespes Accord, have lost touch with the situation on the ground in Greece as it evolved over the last four years.   

They see fiscal targets that are met, a drop in unemployment, strengthened Greek-American ties, progressive talk about immigration and the resolution of the Macedonian name dispute. They ignore over-taxation, paltry growth, the clientelism that ran rampant in the civil service, interventions in the judicial system and the media, and the hell-hole migrant camps of Moria and Samos. We were even told that Mr Tsipras saved the country from financial collapse...