{"id":936536,"date":"2026-05-04T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/936536\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:30:18","slug":"labor-ministry-launches-london-drive-to-attract-skilled-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/936536\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Ministry launches London drive to attract skilled diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kerameus_web.jpg?v=1777874475\" alt=\"Labor Ministry launches London drive to attract skilled diaspora\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/kerameus_web-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>File photo.<\/p>\n<p>Greece is stepping up efforts to lure back skilled workers who left during its decade-long financial crisis, with a new recruitment event planned in London.<\/p>\n<p>About 420,000 to 450,000 Greeks emigrated during the crisis years, according to data from the Hellenic Statistical Authority, in what became a major \u201cbrain drain\u201d for the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Ministry\u2019s \u201cRebrain Greece\u201d initiative will hold an event on May 9 in London, aiming to connect expatriate Greek professionals with employers back home. The gathering will bring together dozens of companies operating in Greece, offering hundreds of specialized and senior-level positions across sectors including finance, energy, healthcare, tourism and consulting.<\/p>\n<p>Labor and Social Security Minister Niki Kerameus said the initiative is designed to encourage Greeks abroad to consider returning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a genuine opportunity for our compatriots in the United Kingdom who wish to explore the prospect of returning to Greece,\u201d she told state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), adding that the government is intensifying efforts to reverse the outflow of talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File photo. Greece is stepping up efforts to lure back skilled workers who left during its decade-long financial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":936537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[26406,748,108590,1700,3374,393,4884,8175,257,285,16,15],"class_list":["post-936536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-brain-drain","tag-britain","tag-diaspora","tag-economy","tag-employment","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-labor","tag-london","tag-politics","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}