Word: polese
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Later in a pub, Izabela Chudzicka, the former bank clerk, talks about the fund raiser, which she's helped to organize in the past. In an accent betraying a hint of an Irish brogue, she says the Poles and the Irish have a lot in common. "We socialize in the...
Listen to the rhetoric of politicians across Europe and you won't hear the relationship between Poles and their host countries described in such friendly terms. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect...
In the end, of the European Union's then 15 countries, only three - Ireland, Britain and Sweden - agreed to open their labor markets in May 2004. Though East Europeans have settled everywhere from Scandinavia to Spain, the most evident result of the decisions taken on enlargement has been a concentrated...
Well they might, for there is no evidence that incoming workers have systematically displaced locals or stolen their jobs. Unemployment is higher in France, from which Poles were turned away, than in Britain where they were welcomed. The jobless rate in Ireland is just 4.5%, and job vacancy rates reported...
Still, for all its success, the new migration did not start out all that well. In fact, had London and Dublin realized from the start just how many Poles and other East Europeans intended to migrate, they might not have opened their markets in the first place. Government economists in...