The story of Europe's economic challenges keeps taking new twists, but as friends from Greece and Spain explain,

people are starting to recognize what's been fueling their economic recession.

Finally, suddenly, Greece had money and that money was spent in the wrong way.

We have made airports that have never been used because there's no need for them

but they needed to spend the money.

Coming up, it's a personal look at Europe's financial... need for them, but they needed to spend the money.

Coming up, it's a personal look at Europe's financial crisis and thoughts on how to turn it around.

I think that most people's expectations in Europe is always the state must, on the authorities, must find a solution. It begins with people to

take initiative. People should start businesses and start working. The

powerhouse economy of Germany is attracting people to its capital city, Berlin.

It is a happening city, it is still an affordable city, and so lots of people go there, move there from Spain, from Portugal, from America.

Get a traveler's update on Berlin and debate Europe's

economic crisis. It's all in the hour ahead on Travel with Rick Steve's. Two of the

worst unemployment rates in Europe are in Spain and Greece where the term economic crisis is not considered an overstatement.

Hi, I'm Rick Steeves. Coming up today on Travel with Rick Steeves,

we'll put the latest headlines in perspective with a personal look and how people in But let's start the hour in Germany.

Germany has Europe's largest economy

with an unemployment rate that's only about a fifth of the figures coming out for Spain and Greece.

A visit to Berlin can demonstrate why.

Ever since the wall came down back in 1989,

there's been a unique energy driving Berlin.

From year to year, the city keeps reshaping itself.

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