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For Albanians, Taste of Capitalism Turns Sour in Greece

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The border Gate in Kakavia. As the world watches Greeks try to cope with rising unemployment, tax hikes and plummeting salaries, a silent community of hundreds of thousands of Albanians - 60 percent of the migrant workforce in Greece - is weighing up its future.
TIRANA/ATHENS. (Reuters) - Artur Metaj made his first drachmas in 1991 selling Bermuda shorts to U.S. soldiers stationed in the Greek capital, Athens. Greece offered Albanians like Metaj their first taste of capitalism after the collapse of four decades of Communist rule. Metaj opened a hair salon, hired 14 people and was joined in Greece by an estimated 500,000 or more Albanians sending money home from Albania's southern neighbour in the form of remittances -

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