Life for young Greek men is completely in limbo

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'With the Greek crisis entering its last stages after another fudge of a deal was reached earlier this month in Brussels, everyone is now supposed to think the adventure is over (it isn’t), and that we’re safe to switch channels from the endless bulletins of what a German or Greek politician said about the deal or Greece’s debt or someone’s mum. (That last bit might be an exaggeration, but trust me reader, we’re getting there.)
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Youth unemployment in Greece stands at a staggering 50 per cent right now. Alongside them, the group that has been hurt the most is those in their late thirties and early forties, professionals who are way into their professional lives, making them too expensive to employe compared to the young coming on to the job market with great qualifications, but not senior enough to challenge the boomers who, like in most of Europe, got off lightly compared to everyone else.

Equally spread between men and women, the ailments of the Greek economy have brought medical and social issues to the forefront. Heart attacks among the under-45 have jumped by 74.5 per cent. The greatest increase was amongst women, at 86.5 per cent. In 2014, there were 802 new cases of HIV infection, of which 86.8 per cent were men.

These issues have given birth to a prevailing sense of despair. Mental health is suffering too: 12.3 per cent of the Greek population has shown symptoms of clinical depression. This is obviously tied to the rise of 35 per cent in suicides, in which the most vulnerable group is middle-aged men who were facing financial difficulties. Men under 34, meanwhile, have gone back to living with their parents in a rate of 2 out of 3, a situation definitely adding to their problems.

What I’ve seen, among Greek friends and family, is young men who before the crisis had entered the job market and in many cases were doing really well, leaving their old lives behind after losing employment and social status. In Greece, being unemployed is a social stigma, unlike what many outside think. (It's worth pointing out too that contrary to the popular myth of the “lazy Greek”, the OECD stats make it clear that Greeks work “the longest hours in Europe”.)'