Sexy poor Greek Berlin

Maksim says Berliners ‘are nuts’, Emil only wears vintage ‘because appearances count’ and Paul views the city as a huge entertainment park for artists across Europe. Hearing so many hippy points of view seem to confirm that the German capital remains the Barcelona of Germany. Hailed within this adage to the city is the acceptance of its fashionable ‘sexy poverty’ – but on the social and economic scale, poverty remains poverty, and no-one can run too far with the idea. Unemployment, creativity and crisis are complementary stars in the Berlin sky. One enhanced vision of the latter is the so-called Greek crisis which separates Greek and German communities – read the articles dedicated to the next installment of a monthly cities reporting mission, ‘EU crisis on the ground’