Dot-com bubble

In the 2000s, Greece witnessed an era of irrational exuberance, better known here as "the era of lobster pasta." Some people would even fly by helicopter to an island just to enjoy such a meal. As the apologists of that time said, "That's what economic growth brings." They viewed any criticism of these phenomena as elitist snobbery. 

How politics has changed. Today's campaign rallies look like anaemic imitations of the passionate and huge gatherings that Greece experienced for many decades. One wonders why our political leaders insist on holding them. They don't gather enough people, they are not lively, and the image does not play very well on television.

More than 450,000 people applied to the Turkish Treasury and Finance Ministry's project to train software developers, according to a statement by the Finance Minister Berat Albayrak on April 30.
"The youth has shown a great favor in our '1 Million Software Developers' project. The number of applicants reached 451,000 in a week time," he said on his Twitter account.

Athens-listed information technology companies showed an improvement in their financial figures last year.

A number of features such as a financially friendly environment, already flowing investment highly-skilled people are among the factors behind Bulgaria's boomign startup scene as seen in 2015, Inventures magazine says in an article about the counry's emerging startup industry.