Post by Jaga on Jul 7, 2007 7:56:32 GMT -7
I found this very interesting article about Poish young people and their dilemma whether to stay in Poland or go abroad. These peopel are called: "John Paul II generation"
Here are the fragments:
Home or away? The plumber’s choice that will shape a nation
Craftsmen, builders and graduates are leaving but now families and towns are fighting back
It took a summer wedding and a bride in white for the family of Justyna Kaczorek to face the issue that is gnawing away at Poland: should we stay or should we go? More than one million Poles have moved to Britain and the Irish Republic, leaving behind a country that is worried about losing its most promising generation.
Wherever families gather, Poles are debating the pros and cons of one of the biggest East-West migrations of recent times. Is it better to live five to a room in Hammersmith and save the cash for an apartment in Poznan? Or to build a new Poland, where pay is poor but the quality of life is so good that emigration no longer serves a purpose? And further: is the exodus destroying the middle class? What is the price to be paid for losing so many graduates, craftsmen and doctors?
“We don’t want to emigrate!” was the message daubed on banners held aloft last week by striking Polish nurses. It was, of course, a coded way of demanding more money: pay up or we are on the next Ryanair flight out of the country. Every second newcomer to the EU job market is now a Pole and the fight is on to keep not only the disgruntled health service employees but the hundreds of thousands of young graduates who have suddenly become Britain’s handymen.
Poland is about to face a huge man-power challenge as it prepares to co-host the 2012 European football championships with Ukraine. Over the next four years it needs to build more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) of motorway. So far, it has been constructing barely six kilometres a year. Poland desperately needs its workers back.
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from:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2039738.ece
Here are the fragments:
Home or away? The plumber’s choice that will shape a nation
Craftsmen, builders and graduates are leaving but now families and towns are fighting back
It took a summer wedding and a bride in white for the family of Justyna Kaczorek to face the issue that is gnawing away at Poland: should we stay or should we go? More than one million Poles have moved to Britain and the Irish Republic, leaving behind a country that is worried about losing its most promising generation.
Wherever families gather, Poles are debating the pros and cons of one of the biggest East-West migrations of recent times. Is it better to live five to a room in Hammersmith and save the cash for an apartment in Poznan? Or to build a new Poland, where pay is poor but the quality of life is so good that emigration no longer serves a purpose? And further: is the exodus destroying the middle class? What is the price to be paid for losing so many graduates, craftsmen and doctors?
“We don’t want to emigrate!” was the message daubed on banners held aloft last week by striking Polish nurses. It was, of course, a coded way of demanding more money: pay up or we are on the next Ryanair flight out of the country. Every second newcomer to the EU job market is now a Pole and the fight is on to keep not only the disgruntled health service employees but the hundreds of thousands of young graduates who have suddenly become Britain’s handymen.
Poland is about to face a huge man-power challenge as it prepares to co-host the 2012 European football championships with Ukraine. Over the next four years it needs to build more than 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) of motorway. So far, it has been constructing barely six kilometres a year. Poland desperately needs its workers back.
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from:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2039738.ece
