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Starting Again in Greece - Return to the village

January 7, 2014

The situation in Greece remains difficult. The unemployment rate is nearly 30 percent. But more and more Greeks are defying the crisis. They're taking their fate into their own hands by going into business for themselves.

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One of them is 33-year-old Apostolos Papadopoulos, who has moved from the city back to the countryside. Now he grows olives and grapes in Podochori, his native village in northern Greece.