Public relations stunts

The government faces a bumpy ride over the next few months. The prime minister and a small group of ministers and officials have handled two big crises - the deliberate migrant push at Greece's border with Turkey and the initial phase of the coronavirus - and these are successes no one can take away from the government, hard as they may try. They can't say that everyone, including the international media, has been bought off to present the government in such a flattering light with regard to the health crisis. They have nothing to gain with their hateful criticism, saying that the government was too hasty with the lockdown on the one hand and too hasty with lifting it on the other.

The adrenaline rush from dealing with successive crises will soon be over and it will be followed in quick succession by a third crisis with no easy solutions.

Some government officials...