Published: 6 Jun 12 08:26 CET | Print version
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As the economic crisis intensifies in Greece, the number of Greeks coming to Sweden in search of housing and jobs has soared, a leader of the Scandinavian country's Greek community said Tuesday.
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Umm... isn't it illegal to live in Sweden and work without a permit? Hence helping them with language training so they can work is aiding and abiding criminals if we want to be frank about it. Does this organization receive public funding???
Well, that could be a future problem for all Greek EU expats if Greece exits Schengen.
But, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Iceland are not in EU but in Schengen. Can't one go and live there. Yes.
UK, Ireland, Bulgaria and Romania are in EU but not in Schengen. Can't one live there? Yes.
Again EES comes and takes the next lead.
Can't one live in Seria same as like in EU or Schengen. NO. But, you can travel without a visa for a limited period.
As you do well today, always remember things could get worse tomorrow...I am amazed by the situation now where Portuguese are moving among other places, to their formal COLONY ANGOLA to look for work, opportunities there.
All EU members can stay up to 3 months within a country that belongs to EU.
The period of stay valid every time you fly out the residence country and come back the next day. Now that we made clear the legal part, I remind you that Swedish state might accept immigrants but the do have rules:
- Rule #1: Register to tax office to get your personnummer
- Rule #2: You are entitled to follow Swedish lessons from SFI (fro free) or go to Swedish university and pay for those lssons - better quality of Swedish language than SFI.
- Rule #3: Request for a residence permit after the 3 months period.
@ SwedenMonkeyTrash_istan: Dear friend in your eyes (as Swedish & international media portrays) Greeks appear lazy. But let me refresh your memory, since you are not searching to find answers to all the non-facts they are presenting Swedish media. Check please this link: http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DatasetCode=ANHRS , It is the OECD statistics. Greeks my friend work 500h more per year than any other Swedish employee. Swedish hours worked/year/worker are at 1600h. For Greeks are at 2100h. So I guess this cancels what fact you might have about Greek LAZY people. Those people that they have served your coffee or cleaned your hotel room or even helped very kindly you find your way when you were lost and you asked for information. Greeks are not lazy, stupid maybe but not lazy. Their economy today was not a but financial management of the last 30 years. It is easy to talk when you haven't participate in any war more than 200 years. Greeks were under Turkish, Italian and German occupation for many years. Maybe we should ask the Germans to pay back all the insurances about the buildings and people they killed during the WWII.
Please get your facts right next time. It is not nice to create impressions.
"Maybe we should ask the Germans to pay back all the insurances about the buildings and people they killed during the WWII."
And what would that fix? Thats right, nothing but "some cash" which would be burned up quickly and in a few years we would be where we are today.
As long as corruption and a corrupted system remain in power, you can dump all the money in the world into Greece and it wont help one single bit.
And since you mentioned the 200 years number, keep in mind that Greece went bankrupt no less than 4 times during the last 200 years.
A fish starts to stink from its head, my friend.
Worth noting though, that if we have an influx of Greeks, we might start to see some decent kebab houses :-D
I cannot understand why people care and after reading the article, are writing bad comments above? You don't like Turkey,Greece,Spain,Italy (just examples)? Don't read the article, why you have to write bad comments afterwards?
I realized that the people when you are trying to talk to them in the everyday life, about a situation that takes place in a country, they always try to be neutral, but when they talk unofficial hidden behind a nick-name on internet most of the times say bad things.
Kebab = Turkish :-D
Err sorry, but you might want to check your "facts." I highly doubt Sweden is more diverse than say, Papua New Guinea where over 800 different languages are spoken or Indonesia where close to 800 different languages are spoken and there are over 300 distinct ethnic societies, not to mention India. If you're talking about countries with a recent history of immigration, the United States and Canada are both much more diverse than Sweden (if you don't believe go to Toronto or New York and see for yourself). Even in Europe, both the Netherlands and the UK are at least more diverse than Sweden.
In those English countries those you mention are not some Muslims sitting in the Parliament except those South Asians who have colonial links.
But, in Muslim countries you never see a migrated christian sitting in the parliament unless or until he was born and ethnically lives there.
Netherlands, I have no idea.
Most of the people that will come will be qualified workforce, plenty with superior education.
No mafias, criminals and such.
I wasn't refuting your claim of Sweden being tolerant, I was saying that "there is no country more diverse than Sweden" is untrue. Regarding the Netherlands since you asked, I know the Mayor of Rotterdam's name is Ahmed Aboutaleb, of Moroccan immigrant origin.
Just watch to see it's only Irani, Iraqi, Syrians, Pakistani and the likes of them are using these "privileges" since the end of 2nd WW motivating shamelessly that they are " in poverty and misery" and "oppressed" eternally.
Would one believe in it? Maybe problems in themselves as a whole lot?
Maybe those Greeks who migrate to Sweden will add value to the economy and society instead of becoming welfare parasites.
Move along , people. Nothing to see here.