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More Greeks Leaving Home for Other EU Countries

The number of Greeks living in other EU states has risen significantly from 10 years ago, according to new data. Six percent of Greeks aged 20-64 were living in other EU countries in 2017 -- a significant rise from 4.7...

Greek Company Offers Incentive to Reverse Brain Drain

A Greek start-up company is offering a repatriation bonus of €5,000 to €10,000 for Greeks wishing to return to their home country to work at its headquarters. Transifex's Chief Executive Officer Dimitris Glezos says that this initiative is more than...

Greek Professor who Solved "Nash Puzzle" Sad over Brain Drain

Constantinos Daskalakis said that he is saddened by the fact that young, educated, talented Greeks leave the country, because they can not advance or even find work in Greece. The Greek scientific genius spoke in front of a packed auditorium...

Greeks who Fled the Crisis Speak Out

It is estimated that at least 420,000 Greeks; half of which hold university degrees, left their homeland since the onset of the economic crisis in 2010, according to a 2017 Bank of Greece study. Naturally, most of them communicate with their friends...

Young Greeks Who Left to Work Abroad Turn their Backs on Greek Public Sector

The promise of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that his administration would stop Greece's brain drain by offering jobs in the public sector to university graduates, goes to deaf ears as those who have left Greece are not interested in...

Greek PM Tsipras Promises More Hirings in Public Sector

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday promised more hirings in the public sector and announced that a new plan for administrative reforms will be presented soon. Speaking in the Ministry of Administrative Reform, Tsipras presented the national strategy for...

Brain Drain Gathers Pace as One in Three Greeks Looks for a Job Abroad

A new study highlights the problem in the Greek labor market as more than 30% of Greek unemployed say that they are actively seeking a job abroad. According to the annual survey by the firm Adecco titled "Employability in Greece,"...

ICAP: Corruption Driving Greek Youth Abroad

According to the international human resources services provider, ICAP People Solutions, Greek youth are opting to leave the country in search of a better life abroad due to the lack of meritocracy and vast corruption in Greece. In total, from...

Seven in Ten Greek High School Students Consider Studying Abroad

Seven in ten Greek high school students consider studies abroad, says a survey conducted by professors of the University of Macedonia. Specifically, 44% of participants expressed a strong intention to study abroad and 33% have a modest intention to do...

Twenty Thousand Scientists Left Greece in Five Years; Startups Funded by Parents

About 20,000 scientists left Greece to work abroad in the 2009-2014 period, while 83.5 percent of startups are funded by home savings, said Deputy Minister of Research and Technology Costas Fotakis. The deputy spoke at the opening of the fourth...