BBC News - Emigration returns to crisis-hit Greece and Ireland

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 young

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But now many young Greek and Irish emigrants, despairing at the state of their home economies, feel forced to head for the exit, just as their parents and grandparents might have done.