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...feared, Poles poured into Britain and Ireland, but rather than undermine local economies, their enterprise and skills have helped the British and Irish economies remain robust. Conversely, unemployment is higher in France, which turned Poles away, than in Britain, where they were welcomed. The jobless rate in Ireland is just 4.5%; job-vacancy rates in some sectors rose in the past two years, to 17%. Over the past two years, according to an estimate by the Dublin-based Economic and Social Research Institute, migrant workers have added 2 percentage points to Ireland's gdp. And in December, citing increased migration...
...Polish success story is feeding the labor debate as the E.U. continues to expand to the east and new countries such as Romania and Bulgaria join. Despite their positive experience with immigrants, both Britain and Ireland decided to maintain labor restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria for the time being. And countries such as Germany and France are keeping the labor door shut to new member states--E.U. law permits them to do so until...
...first waves of immigrants. "This was a perfectly qualified generation of people from Poland that would have come here. Five years from now, we may only get what is left over. It may be too late." That's why Finland, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have decided to follow Britain and Ireland and open their markets to the eight new members from Eastern and Central Europe that joined...
...London and Dublin realized from the start just how many people intended to migrate, they might not have opened their markets in the first place. Britain had expected no more than 15,000 migrant laborers each year from the new E.U. countries; in Ireland 10,000 were predicted. While granting admission to all workers, both nations restricted migrants' access to welfare, thus pre-empting "welfare tourists" from leeching off the system...
...fact, 600,000 migrants went to Britain in the first two years, more than half of them from Poland, and more than 300,000 East Europeans landed in Ireland. Low-cost flights to Dublin from Katowice, Cracow and Wroclaw were jammed for months. Newspapers sprang up to serve the new arrivals; bulletin boards outside churches across Ireland advertised for laborers with many of the notices written in Polish. In one English county, officials have begun adding road signs in Polish because immigrant truck drivers were getting confused...