Rows over press freedom overshadow Greece’s recent achievements
Prison for “fake news”, and a reporter gunned down
Greece’s centre-right government has done a fine job of polishing its image with tourists and investors since Kyriakos Mitsotakis took over as prime minister in 2019. The country’s ancient heritage, not least the invention of democracy, plays a big role in the messaging. But just as in the fifth century bc, freedom of speech matters too.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Hemlock for hacks”
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