To encourage them to do so, the authorities have launched a wage subsidy scheme called Rebrain Greece that offers 500 of those deemed the brightest and best a monthly salary of €3,000 (before tax) if they return to Greece as part of the project. The labor ministry will cover 70 percent of the cost.
“This is a first effort by the Greek state, which seeks to create the conditions for a gradual return,” said Konstantinos Agrapidas, a senior figure in the labor ministry who is overseeing the program.
The scheme started last April as a way to reverse the brain drain and was deemed so important that not even a change of government after July's election could derail it.
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