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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...
...either ones that locals don't want or new positions altogether. In fact, the infusion of educated labor drove growth in host countries' most dynamic sectors. Izabela Chudzicka, 26, arrived with a diploma in economics and now stars in her own Polish-language TV show in Dublin. Ireland, she says, has given her opportunities she could only dream of at home. Sure, she would be ready to go back "if the job is there." But Ireland's 150,000 Poles form a viable submarket for Polish-language media. Chudzicka is like the majority of expatriate Poles, who have at least...
...economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain and Sweden--opened their labor markets...
...film is set in Ireland in 1920, when the locals fight for their independence from Britain, then split into rival factions. Two brothers personify the division: Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who's open to political compromise, and Damien (Cillian Murphy), who won't renounce the purity of his socialist ideals and joins the revolutionary arm of the i.r.a. Loach's approach, though, is anything but evenhanded. The British soldiers are cartoonishly brutal, insulting old ladies, bayoneting men, pulling out a suspect's fingernails with rusty pliers. It's easy to see which of the brothers is to have your sympathy. Murphy...
...life into their tired characters, though such moments are few and far between. All is not lost, though. The violence that one would expect in a film like this is honest and brutal, just like the war itself. Handsome lensing shows off the shot-on-location countryside of Northern Ireland. What advice can the jury at Cannes use this year, when many films will once again compete for the distinctive Palme d’Or? Here’s what I’d say: Look for a film that offers some humanity. The by-the-numbers...