POLAND: ONE WEEK AFTER JOINING THE E.U.SOME YOUNG POLES ARE LEAVING TO FIND WORK IN OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.

Record ID: 649156

  • Title: POLAND: ONE WEEK AFTER JOINING THE E.U.SOME YOUNG POLES ARE LEAVING TO FIND WORK IN OTHER PARTS OF EUROPE.
  • Date: 10th May 2004
  • Summary: WARSAW, POLAND (MAY 10, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS/INTERIOR: INTERNATIONAL BUS STATION IN WARSAW. 0.06 2. SCU: TWO YOUNG WOMEN BUYING TICKETS. 0.14 3. SCU: YOUNG WOMAN BUYING TICKET. 0.18 4. SCU: YOUNG MAN BUYING TICKET. 0.20 5. MLV: BUSES ON INTERNATIONAL BUS TERMINAL. 0.28 6. WS: PEOPLE WAITING TO GET ON BUS. 0.34 7. SCU: MAN CHECKING INTO STUTTGART (GERMANY) BOUND BUS. 0.40 8. MV: QUEUE TO BUS. 0.45 9. MV: DRIVER PACKS LUGGAGE. 0.49 10. MV: DRIVER PLACES LUGGAGE IN COMPARTMENT AND PUTS A BAGGAGE TAG ON. 0.57 11. W: ROW OF INTERNATIONAL BUSES. 1.03 12. MV: CLIENTS IN WORK AGENCY. 1.06 13. SCU: CLIENT IN WORK AGENCY. 1.13 14. SOUNDBITE (Polish) SEBASTIAN NIDEREK CONSULTANT FROM WORK/TRAVEL AGENCY ALMATUR SAYING: "The interest is very high. We didn't even expect this high interest. It reaches around 100 phone calls per day, where people are just asking for work abroad." 1.26 15. MV: MAN IN FRONT OF COMPUTER. 1.31 16. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Polish) SEBASTIAN NIDEREK CONSULTANT FROM WORK/TRAVEL AGENCY ALMATUR SAYING: "After accession into the EU it grew around 20-25 percent. This is because people are no longer afraid of being turned back at the border or having any trouble" 1.44 17. WS/EXTERIOR: OF BRITISH EMBASSY IN WARSAW. / CU: BRITISH EMBASSY SIGN. / CU: COAT OF ARMS. (3 SHOTS) 2.00 18. SCU: SOUNDBYTE (English) CHRISTOPHER THOMPSON, POLITICAL SECRETARY, UNITED KINGDOM EMBASSY SAYING: "we have received many inquiries from Polish citizens about living and working in the UK. From the 1st of May there will be free movement fo polish citizens and workers and we are trying to get across the message to Polish citizens that they are welcome to come and work int UK but they are not welcome to come to the UK if their only intention is to benefit shop" 2.27 19. CU: INTERACTIVE INFORMATION BOOTH. (3 SHOTS) 2.36 20. VARIOUS OF CONSTRUCTION SITE IN WARSAW 21. GV: OF CONSTRUCTION SITE IN WARSAW. (2 SHOTS) 3.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 25th May 2004 13:00
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  • Location: WARAW, POLAND
  • Country: Poland
  • Reuters ID: LVADXUICE8WON6QAUS9XCE8MIAWM
  • Story Text: One week after Poland formally joined the EU, some
    are setting out for Germany, France and the U.K. in search
    of jobs.



    One week after the Poland joined the EU, some young
    Poles are turning towards the west for economic
    opportunity. With borders to the "West" now gone and the
    right to live and work almost anywhere in the EU, there are
    options across Europe.

    On Friday (May 7), buses headed for Stuttgart were
    fully booked. Employment experts say many on board are
    going in search of a job.

    "The interest is very high. We didn't even expect this
    high interest. It reaches around 100 phone calls per day,
    where people are just asking for work abroad...people are
    no longer afraid of being turned back at the border or
    having any trouble", says Sebastian Niderek, a consultant
    from Almatur Work and Travel agency in Warsaw
    Some 450,000 Poles are already working within the old
    European Union, with some 300,000 in Germany alone.

    Experts say the highest chances of finding a job in the
    "old EU" belong to doctors, nurses, medical technicians and
    economics graduates. But in countries like the UK, concerns are
    growing that
    the unemployed in new member states may simply leave their
    home countries in search of better unemployment benefits.

    "We are trying to get across the message to Polish
    citizens that they are welcome to come and work int UK but
    they are not welcome to come to the UK if their only
    intention is to benefit shop", says Christopher Thompson,
    political officer at the British Embassy in Warsaw.

    Some experts have predicted a 20 percent rise in
    immigration after May 1st when Poland and nine other,
    mainly Eastern European states joined the EU.

    But most research shows such fears are probably
    overblown.

    A study by the European Commission and the EU Foundation
    for the Improvement in Living and Working Conditions,
    showed that, even under conditions of full freedom of
    movement, migration from all new Member States to all
    current Member States would be about 1% of the working age
    population of the new Member States - approximately
    220,000 per year, in a Union of 450 million.

    In similar surveys carried out within the EU, it has
    been shown that intentions on migration are often much
    higher than actual migration.

    The study showed that the typical potential migrant from
    the acceding countries is young, educated to tertiary
    level, or still studying, and living as a single person
    with no dependents.


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