Media: Poland is concerned by the outflow of Ukrainian migrant workers
About 500,000 Ukrainian migrant workers could migrate from Poland to Germany, negatively affecting the country’s economy, the Polish Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers told the newspaper Die Welt on Sunday, December 23. About two million Ukrainians live in Poland; most of them are migrant workers.
"According to a moderate scenario that we consider realistic, five hundred thousand Ukrainians will leave the Polish market. The worst-case scenario suggests that there will be twice as many,” stated the organization’s representative, Jakub Bińkowski.
Poland’s economy is affected by factors such as migration of Polish people and low birth rate. In this regard, the Union called on Warsaw to attract more foreign workers and to facilitate granting citizenship for them.
Earlier, Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva stated that 3.2 million Ukrainians are permanently working abroad, while 7 to 9 million are temporary workers.