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The Syrian Refugee Crisis Explained Perfectly With a Simple Animation & Video. In September 2015, the body of a three-year-old Syrian boy was found floating on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Syrian Refugee Crisis Explained Perfectly With a Simple Animation & Video

Photographs of the boy were quick to get circulated world over, and the world responded with a massive outcry over the Syrian civil war and refugee crisis. This was the first time the Syrian crisis was globally recognised as a burning issue, and one that needs to be addressed with utmost urgency. Everyone in Europe thinks Germany is the hardest working country... apart from Greece. Greece is in big trouble.

Everyone in Europe thinks Germany is the hardest working country... apart from Greece

The country became the first developed economy to ever miss a debt repayment to the IMF on Tuesday night. After months of tense negotiations with its creditors a bailout from the eurozone looks increasingly unlikely and politicians across the continent are becoming more and more hostile towards the Syriza government. While the root of Greece's turmoil is complicated, one of the accusations aimed at it is that its employment sector needs a severe overhaul.

While claims that "Greeks are lazy" can be written off with cold, hard statistics, perhaps the difference of opinion between the country and its European neighbours is most strikingly summed up by this table:

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