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The Czech government has distanced itself from controversial remarks made by the country's President Milos Zeman, who suggested that thousands of economic migrants be deported from European states to uninhabited Greek islands.

Turkish politicians continue to provoke Greece on the matter of the so-called ‘disputed’ islands in the Aegean Sea.

A new generation of young Greeks who were forced to leave their homeland due to the ongoing crisis are now getting organized and forming their own opinions regarding all that needs to change in this country.

Greeks cut back on vacations in 2015 in response to increased tax and other obligations, a trend that has continued into this year. The biggest reduction, according to figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), concerns those aged 25-44.

The recent destruction of historical monuments in the center of the Greek capital gives rise to feelings of sadness and anger.

For years now we have heard announcements and statements heralding measures to offer some sort of immunity to Greek individuals and businesses to return undeclared incomes back to the country or to declare them and make them legal.

332,000 Greeks have emigrated abroad between 2010 and 2015 to find better work opportunities, according to official data released by the Greek Foreign Ministry services. The real numbers are believed to be higher, as Greek nationals are not obliged to register to Greek embassies and consulates abroad once they arrive.

If necessity is the mother of invention, eight years of a crippling recession and dwindling work prospects has compelled at least some Greeks to reboot, switch professions and innovate to survive.

Back when he was in middle school in the early 1970s, his Ancient Greek teacher would often speak passionately about her experiences of traveling in Greece. When French Ambassador to Greece Christophe Chantepy took over his duties in the Greek capital, he referred to that memory.

John Behrakis, Alkis Konstantinidis and Alexander Avramidis, the three Greek Reuters photographers who won the Pulitzer prize in the category for ‘Breaking News’, managed to convey the ordeal and the personal stories of the refugees crossing the Aegean Sea in search of a safer and better life for them and their families.