13 posts tagged “poland”
What about the social outlook of the immigrants?
According to the Metro only 33 % knew how to register with a doctor and 54% had received information about their conditional immigration. Housing also appears to be an issue with 44% of those questioned were living in one room with somebody else other than their partner.
What are these migrants doing vocationally?
According to the Metro, in a different article, the agriculture sector in the UK is suffering, with the strawberry crop not being pick and therefore is being left to rot in the field. So where are the immigrants going to work? In my hometown of Wakefield the signs are there, for example, that Poles are starting to open their own shops, like Deli Polski. The success of the Polish immigrants is not going unoticed at home neither, as is show in this story which was carried in the Warsaw Voice.
I'd love to hear your comments on these facts figures and developments....
For more information on research carried out by the Jospeh Rowntree Foundation visit the website at http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/0226.asp
clipped from www.tmcnet.com(Czech News Agency Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Pardubice, East Bohemia, March 3 (CTK) - Some 80 people met in Pardubice today at a protest rally against the stationing of a U.S. radar defence base in the Czech Republic, Jitka Vavrinova from the local police informed CTK. Primarily people who do not live in Pardubice took part in the demonstration, organised by the Food Not Bombs movement, she added. "Local people did not show interest in the demonstration, they did not join it," Vavrinova said, adding that no incidents occurred during the one and a half hour protest. Several similar demonstrations have been staged in the Czech Republic in the past few weeks. Hundreds of opponents met outside the Government Office in Prague on February 13, for instance. The USA would also like to build a missile defence base in Poland that would be interconnected with a radar system placed in the Czech Republic
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It has come to light that the US is planning a missile defence system in Eastern Europe, despite what Oh My News, is carrying on Czech polls showing an overwhelming vote of saying "no", despite the backing of the Czech Prime Minister, Mirek Topolanek. According to Lt Gen Vladimir Popovkin, a commander of Russia's space forces, in an interview with the BBC
"It is very doubtful that elements of the national US missile defence system in eastern Europe were aimed at Iranian missiles, as has been stated," he said.
Moscow has warned of "negative consequences" if Prague agrees to host the missile system.
This is dare I say it yet another example of not taking into account the feelings of other countries to such projects, leaders again not listening....Similar projects have also been agreed with th Polish Government. The fact is they are leading Europe into a Second Cold War at a time when energy resources are becoming scarce, this is a dangerous game to play, especially when Russia hold's all the cards in respect to energy in Europe.
According to the BBC the Polish Government has announced a bill that will punish former members of the Secret Police. The new bill will look at baring them from public jobs and will also lead to a cut in any state benefits.
To see more on the story please follow the following link
Many in Poland are unhappy that the Government has tried to focus on people who collaborated with the Secret Police rather than targeting those who were in the secret police. This will go some way to rectify the situation.
According to the BBC, the Archibishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, has resigned just an hour before his installation. Do you think it is right that a man, who among many, spied for the Communist Party is singled out like this to resign? Or like me do you think there needs to be a balanced approach because of the sheer number of Communist Party members that spied on each other, it makes no sense to do this and that they should forgive maybe but not forget. This is a very interesting story, I think it shows that the institutions in the region are still coming to terms with their Communist past and indeed in some respects this mirrors another story in the region this time in Hungary which is carried in HVG entitled Crisis and Emotion by Ferenc Koszeg. The fact he has resigned though does this mean that there is something more sinister in Stanislaw Wielgus closet that warrants the resignation, or is it just down to pressure?
According to the BBC the New Archbishop of Warsaw has come under attack due to his alleged involvement in spying on priest during the 1970's, for the Communist Party.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6233531.stm
This is also being carried in the International Tribune.
The fact is that many in East European society did this at various levels the only reason this is getting any publicity is the nature and rank of position that this particular individual has got to.
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