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Jo, de har meget på samvittigheden i Bruxelles: “Greece has always had one of the lowest suicide rates in Europe, but its economic crisis has tri...

Nicolai Sennels,

25/08/2012

Jo, de har meget på samvittigheden i Bruxelles:

“Greece has always had one of the lowest suicide rates in Europe, but its economic crisis has triggered a disturbing increase in the number of people killing themselves. … Greece, a country whose Orthodox Church does not condone suicide, has always had one of the lowest suicide rates in Europe. But now, there were 350 suicide attempts and 50 deaths in Athens in June alone. Most of the suicides were among members of the middle class”