"The percentage of those who have the luck to get a job dropped down," said one of the women whom I spoke with about the crisis. Almost every day of the week my way passes through Omonia Square and its surroundings where most of the shops selling products from Bulgaria are located, and the restaurants which have Bulgarian managers are gathering points of the economic migrants on weekends. I decided to finally ask them how they cope in the crisis, whether the number of their customers had decreased, whether Bulgarians are leaving or are they trying to survive somehow.

The difficult economic situation and the uncertainty about the near future of Greece led the Prime Minister George Papandreou to urge for consultations the leaders of all key political parties.

Notwithstanding the efforts made so far, the budget deficit decreased at a slower pace than expected and the measures implemented up to that moment for economic reform don't have the intended effect.