A rewarding return to Poland

The Polish daily Polska expresses the view that for Polish work migrants the return to their booming home country is now worthwhile. "Driven by hopelessness, low salaries and an unbearably hostile job market in which conditions were dictated by employers, hundreds of thousands of Poles decided to leave Poland in search of work abroad [following EU membership in 2004]. ... It has taken four years for everything to change. The situation in Poland is improving rapidly while the countries of the old EU are slowing down. Our economy is growing by five to six percent annually while Ireland, which is regarded as a model within the EU, is facing a recession this year. ... Here in Poland salaries are rising by 10 percent per year, while in the West of the continent they can barely keep up with inflation. The increasingly tough conditions on Western Europe's labour markets mean that immigrants are less and less welcome there."

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