Martin Vander Weyer Martin Vander Weyer

Any other business: The Greeks are coming, and our teenagers won’t be much competition for them

issue 25 February 2012

One consequence of the Greek crisis — in which default remains a strong possibility despite the latest bail-out, and either way the Greek economy will be dead for a decade — must surely be a wave of Greek migrants looking for work across the EU. And since they won’t find a welcome between Macedonia and the Channel, that means an influx into Britain, absorbing many of the new jobs that will be on offer when real recovery finally kicks in.

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Martin Vander Weyer
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Martin Vander Weyer is business editor of The Spectator. He writes the weekly Any Other Business column.

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