BBC: Greeks and Irish look for jobs abroad
Posted by evdomada on April 13, 2010
By Chris Bowlby
BBC Radio 4, Crossing Continents
In the places worst affected by Europe’s economic crisis, unemployment and cuts in pay and public services are hitting the headlines. But the crisis is also having another effect with profound long-term consequences – the return of emigration.
Places like Greece and Ireland thought the good times of the last decade or two had finally ended the cycle of emigration, with the brightest and best youngsters no longer feeling they had to move away.
No-one believes that any more.
Read more at BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8616434.stm
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