Daily News Digest -- Thurs June 07, 2012

Daily News Digest -- Thurs June 07, 2012: Key Irish and international business news at a glance; Bloomberg reports that four years ago, Wendy Atkinson Navarro, 36, had a job, a husband and a home. Now, she is divorced, out of work and living with her mother near Madrid, a casualty of Spain’s recession that has driven unemployment above 24% and is unnerving young people...Thirty-seven years ago, Nikos Dimou, who is now 76, wrote a book of aphorisms titled "The Misery of Being Greek," which was published in 1975. In the book, he wrote that a Greek does "everything he can to widen the divide between desire and reality." According to estimates by the Polish government, Poland will have caught up with the standard of living in the West in 20 to 30 years. Nonsense, writes the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita.

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