Małgorzata Tomczak
Opposition figures have falsely claimed the centres are intended to house irregular immigrants.
Małgorzata Tomczak
Opposition figures have falsely claimed the centres are intended to house irregular immigrants.
However, Germany’s interior minister insists that the practice will continue.
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There are currently over 1 million foreign workers registered in Poland following years of large-scale immigration.
The meeting went ahead anyway, with empty chairs left to represent the missing parties.
“The Polish labour market is becoming more and more attractive to foreigners,” says the head of the state Social Insurance Institution (ZUS).
The majority of the increase is accounted for by Ukrainian refugees, though other forms of migration to Poland have also been rising rapidly.
Poland issued almost one million first residence permits to non-EU immigrants, more than twice as many as any other member state.
Agnieszka Wądołowska
The latest data on residence permits shows Georgians to be Poland’s fourth-largest group of arrivals.
The country has also received its highest number of asylum applications in five years, amid a surge in refugees from Afghanistan and Belarus.
The data confirm that Poland’s recent unprecedented wave of immigration has continued amid the pandemic.
Poland has had one of the EU’s highest levels of immigration in recent years.
Tim Judah
It will show to what extent Poland is becoming like a rich western country.
The health minister handed medical licences to five Belarusian and Ukrainian doctors who have completed the new process.