Germany Wooing Poles to Move In?

[ejmarkow]

I just noticed the following headline, "Poles Offered Financial Incentives to
Move to Eastern Germany (Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 08:45 AM in the 'Warsaw
Independent' news service. Isn't it a bit hypocritical to encourage Poles to
move to and live in Germany, but deny them the right to work there legally?

[russh]

Ah, but it's move to East Germany - where there's no work, and lots of ghost towns.

Hypocritical, but not stupid.

[ejmarkow]

russh napisał:

> Ah, but it's move to East Germany - where there's no work, and lots of ghost
> towns.
>
> Hypocritical, but not stupid.

Agreed. Taxpayers are desperately needed to fund pensions, for maintenance of
infrastructure, and to keep the many vacant buildings from falling into
disrepair. Germans have one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, so fresh blood
is needed. It's a wise move on behalf of Germany.

[esk16]

It looks as somebody is trying to use poor, naive Polish people.

Nowadays there is a tendency, even among my friends, to go abroad with greate
hope to find a well paid job (well paid- it doesn't necesarly mean ambitious
one). They are students, know some foreign languages- better or worse- and they
desperately want to leave this country.

But what aboute all those uneducated, unemploeyd people who have lost their
hope for better future? They would go even to Eastern Germany, because for
Poles Germany has always been a synonym of wealther.

And just one thing- my sister mooved to Westarn Germany a couple of years ago.
She had perspective job here but decided to follow her fiance. Although she
knows the language well (German of course; English quite good) and heve
experience, I dare to say that there are no perspectives of proffesional
development for her in Germany. She works physically (I think it's legal work)
and look after the children.
But I would lie if I told you that she's extrimely unhappy... Being a so
called "second category citizen" her living standard is much better than mine.
As you see- it depends and it's hard for me to stay objective.

[firemouse]

Eugene - it is VERY hypocritical.

But who cares. No one wants to live there. With all these shinheads around.

[ja_karola]

Every cloud has a silver lining. So some will leave, but at least others may
come! Le petit Paris à Varsovie…. Can’t wait for the cheese!

Wprost: Dec. 2005

Tarchomin-sous-Bois

Warszawa wita uchodźców!
Po niedawnych wydarzeniach we Francji władze Warszawy przygotowały się na
przybycie uchodźców – podwarszawskie blokowisko Tarchomin nazywa się od dziś
Tarchomin-sous-Bois (czyt. Tarszomę su bła).

Wladze zrobiły wszystko, żeby uchodźcy czuli się jak u siebie: w
pomieszczeniach po starej kotłowni powstaje osiedlowy ośrodek kultury, gdzie
będą kultywować swoją etniczną odrębność. Działać mają rewie Moulin Rouge
(czyt. mulę ruż) i Crazy Horse (czyt. krejzi hors). W replice kawiarni Aux Deux
Magots (o de mago) intelektualiści i profesorowie Sorbony przy filiżance kawy
będą toczyć dysputy na temat wielkości cywilizacji francuskiej – po pracy na
Stadionie Dzięsieciolecia (gdzie mogą sprzedawać tanie podróbki Diora i
Chanel). Ich żony powinny znaleźć zatrudnienie jako guwernantki (o ile znają
angielski). Na jednej z osiedlowych uliczek wydzielono plac Pigalle, gdzie
znajdą zatrudnienie inne paryżanki, a nad Wisłą przygotowano miejsca dla
bukinistów i malarzy. Mieszkańcy Tarchomin-sous-Bois mogą też założyć
kooperatywę, w której według tradycyjnych receptur będą produkować 324 gatunki
sera. UE ma dofinansować wzorcową winnicę, gdzie przetrwają tradycyjne odmiany
winorośli.
„Mały Paryż” ma szansę się stać europejską atrakcją turystyczną, tym bardziej
że w galerii Ośrodka Kultury wystawione będą fragmenty kolekcji Luwru.
Związane to jest z zapowiadaną likwidacją tego muzeum, po tym jak Wielki Imam
Paryża przypomniał o konieczności przestrzegania islamskiego zakazu tworzenia
obrazów.

by Stanisław Klawe and Andrzej Paulukiewicz

[ianek70]

ejmarkow napisał:

> I just noticed the following headline, "Poles Offered Financial Incentives to
> Move to Eastern Germany (Tuesday, June 06, 2006 - 08:45 AM in the 'Warsaw
> Independent' news service.

Don't know the full story, but I heard the local council in Frankfurt an der
Oder were trying to tempt Poles across the river.
There's the same depopulation there as in (most of?) the rest of the old DDR,
and blocks of flats are standing empty because demolishing them is too
expensive to be a priority in a high-unemployment area with more pressing
problems. And if there are Poles a couple of hundred yards away who need
somewhere to live, then letting them rent flats for a pittance may or may not
be hypocrytical or cynical (it's generally Berlin and not Frankfurt that
decides who can work legally in Frankfurt), but it's certainly practical.
Why have people on one bank of the river homeless or living ten to a flat, when
there's flats across the bridge lying empty?