A lesson against the stereotypical attitude towards the Greeks gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her visit in a German school in Berlin, where the majority of students come from migrant families. “It is wrong to say that the Greeks are not hardworking people” said the Chancellor, “or that the Germans are stingy” for that matter. “When the euro crisis began, it posed a difficult challenge. I always stood against anyone who supported such stereotypes”, she added, advising children to never generalize such ideas in order to discover the diversity of Europe. However, her statements back in May 2011, at the peak of the European and Greek crisis, cannot be easily forgotten. Angela Merkel was scolding the Greeks back then for taking longer holidays than Germans and getting their pensions earlier than the German employees. “It is important that everyone makes equal efforts. We cannot have a common currency while some take longer holidays than others”, she was then saying.