For Greeks in Germany, life is better — but home still calls...

For Greeks in Germany, life is better — but home still calls

July 11, 2015

*** He relocated to Germany in 2011 to study philosophy at Berlin’s Freie Universität, and has been living here since. Papadakis speaks fluent German, teaches at the university while writing his thesis, and has no plans to return to Greece any time soon. He is one of 328,564 Greek citizens who were registered as living in Germany at the end of 2014 — the fourth consecutive year in which the total number of Greeks living in Germany grew.

More than 138,000 Greeks have migrated to Germany since 2009 — the year in which the global financial crisis left the country’s economy in ruins. Greece currently has the highest unemployment rate in the EU (25.6 percent as of May 2015), and is in the midst of a five-year long recession. Germany, on the other hand, has a flouring economy, the lowest unemployment rate in the EU (4.7 percent) and a labor market that craves high-skilled workers, according to the Cologne Institute for Economic Research....

http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-07-11/greeks-germany-life-better-home-still-calls