Η ανεργία στέλνει τους Έλληνες στο εξωτερικό

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Δραματικό είναι το σκηνικό στην αγορά εργασίας τόσο στην Ελλάδα, όσο και στις άλλες χώρες του Ευρωπαϊκού Νότου. Τα στοιχεία της ΕΛΣΤΑΤ για την ανεργία, που διαμορφώθηκε στο 23,1% τον Μάιο του 2012, ξεπερνώντας κάθε ρεκόρ, καταδεικνύουν το μέγεθος του προβλήματος.

Όπως αναφέρει η εφημερίδα «ΤΑ ΝΕΑ», μέσα σε ένα χρόνο οι Έλληνες που αναζήτησαν δουλειά στη Γερμανία αυξήθηκαν κατά 10%. Το μεταναστευτικό κύμα σε σχέση με τη δεκαετία του 1960 παρουσιάζει μια μεγάλη διαφορά, αφού σε αυτόπρωταγωνιστούν πτυχιούχοι και όχι ανειδίκευτοι εργάτες και μάλιστα νεαρής ηλικίας. Άλλωστε, με βάση τα στοιχεία, πάνω από ένας στους δύο νέους ηλικίας από 15 έως 24 δεν μπορεί να βρει δουλειά.

Όπως δείχνουν τα στοιχεία του Ομοσπονδιακού Πρακτορείου Εργασίας της Γερμανίας, στα τέλη Μαΐου εργαζόταν στην πρώτη οικονομία της ευρωζώνης 117.744 Έλληνες, έναντι 107.245 τον περσινό Μάιο, σημειώνοντας αύξηση 9,8%.

Το κύμα της μεγάλης φυγής είναι απότοκος της κρίσης και της πολιτικής τουμνημονίου. Αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι από τον Ιανουάριο του 2008 μέχρι το πρώτο τρίμηνο του 2010, ο αριθμός των Ελλήνων μεταναστών στη Γερμανία υποχωρούσε και μάλιστα έπεσε κάτω από το όριο των 100.000.

Εντύπωση όμως προκαλεί το γεγονός ότι εκπρόσωπος της Κομισιόν, όταν ρωτήθηκε για το νέο ρεκόρ ανεργίας στη χώρας και το εάν συνδέεται με την πολιτική του μνημονίου απάντησε ότι «αυτό απλώς δεν είναι αλήθεια»

Υποφέρει ο Ευρωπαϊκός Νότος

Μια θέση στην αγορά εργασίας στη Γερμανία αναζητούν κι άλλοι Νοτιοευρωπαίοι, αφού οι χώρες τους μαστίζονται από την ανεργία.

Αύξηση 11,5% στη μετανάστευση προς Γερμανία καταγράφουν οι Ισπανοί, ακολουθούν οι Έλληνες (9,8%), οι Πορτογάλοι (5,9%) και οι Ιταλοί (4,2%).

Σοκ στην Άνδρο! Αυτοκτόνησε 31χρονος ναυτικόςΑπό ProtoThema.gr | protothema.gr – 1 ώρα 44 λεπτά πριν

 

Σοκ στην Άνδρο! Αυτοκτόνησε 31χρονος ναυτικός


Το τραγικό φαινόμενο των αυτοκτονιών, που οφείλεται κυρίως στην απόγνωση που βιώνει ένας μεγάλος αριθμός συνανθρώπων μας, έχει αρχίσει να κάνει την εμφάνισή του και στις Κυκλάδες.

Σοκ έχει προκαλέσει ο χαμός ενός 31χρονου νέου από το Γαύριο Άνδρου, ο οποίος έδωσε τέλος στη ζωή του πριν από μερικά 24ωρα (έβαλε θηλιά στο λαιμό του και κρεμάστηκε).

Σύμφωνα με το cyclades24.gr o Κώστας Χαλάς, ένας εξαιρετικός άνθρωπος που όποιος τον είχε γνωρίσει μιλάει με τα καλύτερα λόγια για τον χαρακτήρα του, διάλεξε ο ίδιος να θέσει τέρμα στο προσωπικό του ταξίδι στη ζωή.

Ναυτικός στο επάγγελμα και αρραβωνιασμένος – όπως αναφέρουν οι πληροφορίες – έφυγε αιφνιδιάστηκα βυθίζοντας σε πένθος τους δικούς του ανθρώπους και την τοπική κοινωνία του νησιού. Οι ίδιες πληροφορίες αναφέρουν ότι το τελευταίο διάστημα ήταν άνεργος, αντιμετωπίζοντας κάποια προβλήματα. Είχε εργασθεί σε πολλά πλοία της ακτοπλοΐας ως λογιστής, με τελευταίο το Superferry ΙΙ.

Η κηδεία του έγινε στην ιδιαίτερη πατρίδα του κάτω από πολύ βαρύ κλίμα.

Αύξηση 8,7% της ανεργίας στην Ελλάδα στο α' τρίμηνο 2012

Ετοιμοι να εργασθούν σε άλλη χώρα το 64% των ελλήνων από 15 έως 35 ετών
ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ: 27/06/2012 17:30



Κατά 8,7% αυξήθηκε η ανεργία στην Ελλάδα το πρώτο τρίμηνο του 2012 σε σχέση με την αντίστοιχη περίοδο του 2011, σύμφωνα με την τριμηνιαία έκθεση της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής για την κοινωνική κατάσταση στην ΕΕ. To 64% των Ελλήνων ηλικίας 15-35 ετών δηλώνουν έτοιμοι να εγκατασταθούν σε άλλη χώρα για να εργαστούν, ενώ με τα πιο μελανά χρώματα περιγράφει η Επιτροπή την κατάσταση των αστέγων που ανέρχονται πλέον σε 20.000.

Οι θέσεις εργασίας στη χώρα μας μειώθηκαν την περίοδό αυτή κατά 400.000. Την ίδια περίοδο στην Ισπανία χάθηκαν 660.000 θέσεις εργασίας, στην Πορτογαλία 210.000 και στην Ιταλία 180.000.

Η Επιτροπή επισημαίνει ότι η Ελλάδα συγκαταλέγεται στην ομάδα των χωρών στις οποίες αναμένεται επιδείνωση της απασχόλησης το δεύτερο εξάμηνο του 2012 στον τομέα των υπηρεσιών και των κατασκευών.

Εξάλλου, σύμφωνα με την έκθεση της Επιτροπής, την τριετία 2008- 2011 η ανεργία στους πολίτες ηλικίας 55- 64 ετών διπλασιάστηκε σε έξι κράτη-μέλη: την Ελλάδα, τη Δανία, την Ιρλανδία, την Ισπανία, τη Λετονία και τη Λιθουανία.

Παράλληλα, το 64% των Ελλήνων ηλικίας 15- 35 ετών (27% για περιορισμένο χρονικό διάστημα και 37% μακροπρόθεσμα) δηλώνουν έτοιμοι να εγκατασταθούν και να εργαστούν σε άλλη ευρωπαϊκή χώρα. Ο μέσος κοινοτικός όρος είναι 53%, ενώ υψηλά ποσοστά παρατηρούνται επίσης στην Ισπανία και την Ιρλανδία (από 67%) και στην Πορτογαλία (57%).

Με τα πιο μελανά χρώματα περιγράφει η Επιτροπή την κατάσταση των αστέγων στην Ελλάδα. Όπως επισημαίνεται στην έκθεση, το 2011 οι άστεγοι στη χώρα μας αυξήθηκαν κατά 25%, σε σχέση με το 2009, και ανέρχονται σε 20.000. Πάνω από το ήμισυ των αστέγων εντοπίζονται στην Αθήνα και τον Πειραιά (11.000- από τους οποίους 8.000 είναι Έλληνες).

Το πρόβλημα των αστέγων έχει κάνει, επίσης, την εμφάνισή του σε πόλεις όπως τα Χανιά, το Ηράκλειο Κρήτης και τα Τρίκαλα, αναφέρει η Επιτροπή.

Στην έκθεση υπογραμμίζεται ότι λόγω της κρίσης έχει αυξηθεί ο αριθμός των αστέγων με υψηλή μόρφωση που είχαν ικανοποιητικό βιοτικό επίπεδο, χωρίς ψυχολογικά προβλήματα ή προβλήματα εξάρτησης, οι οποίοι πλέον «δεν τα βγάζουν πέρα», έχοντας χάσει τη δουλειά τους.

Η Επιτροπή σημειώνει επίσης ότι το 68% του πληθυσμού στην Ελλάδα ζει κάτω από το όριο της φτώχειας (σ.σ. δηλαδή με εισόδημα κάτω από το 60% του μέσου εθνικού εισοδήματος) και διαθέτει πάνω από το 40% του εισοδήματός του για το ενοίκιο ή την αποπληρωμή στεγαστικού δανείου.

Τέλος, η Επιτροπή αναφέρει ότι το δεύτερο εξάμηνο του 2012 αναμένεται να μειωθούν οι κοινωνικές δαπάνες κατά 18%.

http://www.tovima.gr/finance/article/?aid=464381

Coming Here Soon - 1. Greece, Bust and Broken

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01kbz15/Coming_Here_Soon_Greece_Bust_and_Broken/

Greece brain drain 'wrecking my social life'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18542449

All square - from Aristotle to Trafalgar, for many young Greeks

As the queues of jobless Greeks grow, more and more young people are moving abroad. It's an exodus that's particularly painful for Greek journalist Giorgos Christides.

Hanging out with friends is becoming increasingly difficult for me.

It seems my friends are fleeing Greece one by one, and the next time we see each other for a beer, our meeting place will probably be London's Trafalgar rather than Thessaloniki's Aristotle Square.

These past couple of weeks, I saw two of my best friends become residents of London, leaving their spouses and children behind, to work in the British capital and escape the employment no-man's-land that Greece has turned into because of the crisis.

Recently I also had to bid farewell to my brother, who returned to Saudi Arabia where he works as an engineer. The trend is not limited to 30 and 40-something professionals, but is spreading to younger age groups as well.

Freelance journalist, contributing to foreign media including BBC World Service and Spiegel Online
Aged 36, married to fellow journalist Tina Antonakou, one son, Manlolis, five
Studied journalism and mass media at the Aristotle university of Thessaloniki and then an MSc in European and International Politcs at the Univesity of Edinburgh in 1999-2000
Previously economics editor at daily newspaper Makedonia
Co-founder of web newspaper United Reporters
Also an independent translator of books for various publishing houses

According to the latest national polls, more than seven out of 10 young Greeks aged 18 to 24 believe that emigration is the ideal - indeed the only - way out from the crisis. Two out of 10 have already applied for jobs and university places abroad.

For many Greek high school graduates, who are currently sitting for their university entrance examinations, studying in Greece is not a choice but an imperative dictated by their families' lack of economic means to fund a university education abroad.

Those families who can afford it, don't give the matter a second thought - they hide their tears and frustration as best they can, and wave their children goodbye, wishing them to go abroad and stay there for good.

Who can blame them? Not only are job prospects dim, but the Greek education system per se has been dealt a heavy blow by the crisis.

The latest academic year was marked by great unrest at universities, provoked by funding cuts and a controversial law that was approved by parliament but remains inactive, promising to eliminate some schools and establishing rules for professor evaluation.
Countless hours were lost in university building takeovers and demonstrations, while in public high schools funding cuts meant that students didn't even have their textbooks in time for the beginning of classes, and had to use photocopies instead.

How things have changed! For most people of my generation, who graduated from university in the booming 90s and early Noughties, studying abroad was seen as a step towards finding a better job back home.

In 1999, when a fellow Greek student at the University of Edinburgh announced his decision to stay and work in Scotland, he provoked a chain reaction of disapproval and disbelief - you'll get sick of the weather and return by next year, many of us foretold. Greece was then a country full of opportunity, and young people made big plans to follow prosperous careers upon returning.

Little did we know that a decade later, Greece would be considered an economic wasteland for ambitious young students and graduates, who are now suffering from unemployment rates in excess of 50%.

Workers' and students' mobility has been, of course, one of the landmarks and major achievements of European integration. But it is now evolving into a medium-term death sentence for the ageing Greek society and economy.

In an era characterised by intensified global competition for talented, innovative and highly-skilled workers, the brain drain afflicting Greece means the country is losing its best hope of revival.

Viewing your country as a dead-end and a prison is therefore a more daunting and condemning prospect than defaulting or exiting the euro.

Not to mention the havoc it is wreaking to my social life.

Greek debt crisis: the agony of Athens

What is life really like for Greeks as they face the crisis gripping their country? Four ordinary people tell their stories

Jon Henley
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 19 June 2012 20.00 BST

Shopping in a 'one euro' store in Athens, Greece. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images


I have been in Greece talking to real people this week. It's better that way; trying to write about "Greece" or "the Greeks" or "the crisis" does you no good after a while, because there are so many different realities.

Some people don't seem affected at all. Walk down Ermou Street in central Athens, heaving with shoppers; try finding a table on a crowded terrace off Monastiraki Square; drive through the cosseted suburbs of Kifissia, and you'd never guess there was anything wrong.

But spot a young, cleanly dressed family sitting on the steps of a bank on Stadiou Street, father holding out both hands for money; visit Kyada, a municipal soup kitchen that feeds 1,500 a day; stray beyond where the tourists go, as far as the boarded-up shops and graffiti that says "Greece for the Greeks", and there is another reality.

And beneath it is a deeper, but palpable reality: that far larger forces are playing out here, life-changing decisions being made in distant places. Plus the reality that for a lot of the world, "the Greeks", basically, brought it on themselves.

So it is complicated. You get pushed into narratives that cannot be complete, or even necessarily true. My idea was just to let some Greeks speak for themselves; recount their personal realities.
The single mother: Eleni Trivoulidou, 45, Athens



I'm divorced with four children: a student daughter of 25; a son of 24; and a boy and girl in their teens. They're all still at home. I worked for a while when I was much younger, but I got married at 19 and had my first baby a year later. Then I looked after my children until the youngest left primary school. At first I found temporary jobs no problem, in hotels, a cafe. But for the past two years, there has been nothing.

I get €180 (£145) every two months from the government, because of the kids still at home. My parents give me a bit when I go to see them, but that's not easy now because my father isn't well; we think it's Alzheimer's disease. And anyway, his pension has been cut.

My ex-husband sends me €400 (£320) a month; it pays for the kids' food. And he helps out from time to time with their clothes and a few bills. But we are five almost-grown adults living on €700 (£565) a month. Thank heavens my ex finished paying for the house or we'd all be homeless by now.

It has been so long since I had money I don't know what I'd do if I got some. I'd like to go out sometimes and have coffee with a friend, not just in each other's houses. Or take the children to a cafe. My best friend has a cosmetics shop and lets me pay for what I need, nail varnish, a bit of lipstick, when I can afford to. It would be nice not to make her wait.

I did get a job a while back in an old people's home. They said I was good with old people, but they couldn't keep me. They had to get rid of people; lots of families are taking their elderly back because they can't afford retirement homes any more. I got €150 for the week.

I made one mistake: I should have gone back to work earlier, when my youngest was two or three and the economy was OK. Got a secure job. But my husband didn't want me to, and I didn't push it. Now I'm taking evening classes for my school leaving certificate; I left school at 16. And an accountancy qualification. The trouble is, I'll cost more than someone in their 20s, because my youngest isn't 18 yet. My daughter's generation, they're working for €300 (£240) a month. How are you supposed to build something, start a family, on that?

I could go to Australia: when I was little, we lived in Melbourne; my dad worked in the General Motors factory. I have the passport and a sister, aunts. But the children don't want to. And I feel I'd be giving up. Why should I leave just because politicians have brought the country to its knees? I want to stay and work.
The finance director: Dimitris Koutsolioutsos, Athens

I work for my uncle's firm, a big name in jewellery and duty-free. I've just set up this scheme, Gineagrotis – "Become a farmer". It's not complicated: city-dwellers rent a patch of land from a farmer, tell him what they want him to grow on it, and get their own fresh vegetables delivered to them weekly.

It's about creating a direct connection between the consumer and the producer. The farmer's happy because he knows in advance what and how much he has to plant, and he sells all he grows. It's a regular, guaranteed, stable income; customers commit for a year. And the consumer gets fresh veg for 70% less than at the supermarket or greengrocer's.

You go online, opt for one of three plot sizes from 50 sq m to 100 sq m, and choose from 10 summer and 10 winter vegetables. It costs from €14.20, to feed two people, to €20.90 a week for five or more. The veg are delivered within 24 hours of being picked, and if you are away or on holiday, you can ask for them to go to a soup kitchen in Athens. From September, you can donate some vegetables weekly.

It's really, really taken off. Amazing. The site has been up two months and we've had more than 5,000 accounts created, and 900 farmers sign up. Last week, we started deliveries to the first 100 families from the first four farms. In September, we plan to offer olive oil, eggs, even your own sheep or goat; you just need a big freezer, or lots of friends.

I'm working 18-hour days and spending half my time on this, with friends. I've put in about €40,000 (£32,000) of my own money, and I'm 100% confident in the business plan. For farmers, it's all they ever wanted. For consumers, it's quality fresh food, cheaper. We're fulfilling real social and economic needs. Greece is full of initiatives such as this now; people are starting to realise we can and must do things ourselves – change from the bottom up.
The businessman: George Efstratiadis, 38, Patras



My grandfather came here with his family from Turkey in 1922. He made a living hawking sewing needles and cloth around the villages, and selling olive oil and eggs back in town. My dad was an electrician in the factories that existed then in Patras. In 1968, he started his own company. My brother, my sister and I took over in 2000. We specialise in water pumps, for all sorts of uses, from big waste-water and irrigation projects to swimming pools and homes. We sell to contractors, municipalities and utility companies. In 2009, we turned over €8.8m (£7m) and had 67 employees. By last year, our sales had halved, and this year we expect €2.5m (£2m): back where we started.

The transition from plenty to hardship has been fast. Every three months I make tough decisions, and every three months they're never enough. The first sign was when Athens didn't put 400 planned waste-water projects out to tender. Then private contractors started delaying payments; I have maybe half a million euros in unpaid bills. Then the public-sector customers just stopped paying altogether.

We had to cut costs. I shacked advertising to zero. I slashed travel. I rolled over loans, halved our repayments. I reduced the office space, renegotiated rents. But the biggest expense is wages. We're a family firm; we're extremely sensitive. In all our history, we had never fired a single person. But I had to start letting people go; two or three a month – the law doesn't allow more than that. I've had to fire 39 people.

Last year, every time I went up to a colleague, they would look at me in fear. I've cried tears with my employees, we've hugged each other. A few got angry. But most understood this was not my choice; we could just no longer afford their salaries. And behind each of them is a family.

This year I have cut working hours, to six or four hours a day, to avoid more job losses. It's been the worst experience of my life. Devastating. I've worked here – sweeping flooors, running errands, doing filing – since I was six. But without the cuts, we'd have been bankrupt by early last summer.

I don't think there's a politician alive who can solve Greece's problems at this moment. Attitudes to easy money have to change here, and that'll take an earthquake. But we can't keep squeezing people, increasing taxes, piling on the pressure. The election result was a victory for the austerity terrorists. I expect harder strikes, bigger riots and an unstable future.
The civil servant: Dominique Vitzileou, 39, Athens



I work for the organisation that gives Greek farmers their EU subsidies. I have been there 10 years. My pay's been cut 30%. I can't go on holiday. But then I'm not even sure I'll have a job in three months' time, or that the state will be able to pay me.

I am anxious. I do worry. The fear comes slowly; it kind of crawls into your mind. You think, what's my future going to be? But you can't let it rule you.

When the government introduced this new house tax – €5 for every square metre of your apartment in my part of town – and included it in the electricity bills so that people's power would be cut off if they didn't pay, I couldn't accept it. Not for me, for the old people, unemployed people with children. I helped organise a neighbourhood protest.

I really don't know how this will end. It's going to get more painful, certainly. It's really unbelievable what's happening. I can't believe I'm caught up in something so exceptional that I've become someone worth interviewing. But every day, there's something new. Recently it was the phone company. They want to put some of their staff on two-hour working days, and pay them €140 (£113) a month. With no health insurance, nothing. Can you believe this?

And out at Lavrion, the refugee centre outside town, there are 85 children not being fed. Immigrants get stabbed in the metro by neo-fascists, and no one is arrested. My neighbours, with two children, live on €350 (£280) a month unemployment benefit. Medicine is in short supply. What do [IMF managing director] Christine Lagarde and the others want: people crawling, dying in the streets? Jumping off balconies?

I'm not sure this new austerity coalition will last long when people take to the streets. If the troika doesn't change its approach to the so-called "Greek problem" things will end very badly. There'll be new elections in the autumn. The worst is yet to come.

You know, I gave food for the asylum for people with terminal illnesses in Kypseli yesterday. The staff haven't been paid since February, and 260 patients haven't got enough food. Our crisis is this: the old is dying, but the new cannot be born.

Σοκ στο Αγρίνιο: Άνεργος αυτοκτόνησε στην αυλή του σπιτιού του

news247 Ιούνιος 15 2012 09:27





Μακραίνει η λίστα θανάτου λόγω του υψηλού ποσοστού ανεργίας στη χώρα μας. Διαβάστε πώς ένας 55χρονος αποφάσισε να βάλει τέλος στη ζωή του με καραμπίνα στην αυλή του σπιτιού του



Σoκαρισμένοι παραμένουν οι κάτοικοι στο δήμο Καινούργιου στο Αγρίνιο, από την απόφαση 55χρονου συντοπίτη τους να βάλει τέλος στη ζωή του, το απόγευμα της Πέμπτης και μάλιστα στην αυλή του σπιτιού του.


Ο αυτόχειρας έβαλε τέρμα στη ζωή το απόγευμα, περί τις 20:30 έξω από την αυλή του σπιτιού του.

Το έπραξε με κυνηγετική καραμπίνα με το θάνατό του να γίνεται αντιληπτός από τους περίοικους.

Η αστυνομία διεξάγει τη σχετική προανάκριση για τα αίτια που οδήγησαν τον 55χρονο στο απονενοημένο διάβημα.

Ωστόσο, σύμφωνα με τις πρώτες πληροφορίες του agrinionews.gr, ο 55χρονος αντιμετώπιζε ψυχολογικά προβλήματα, εξαιτίας της πολύχρονης ανεργίας του.

Σύμφωνα με τους γείτονες, ο ίδιος ζει μόνος του, δεν έχει οικογένεια και δεν είχε προϊδεάσει πως θα έφθανε μέχρι την αυτοκτονία.