conspiracy analyst Trustworthy Freedom Fighter
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:38 am Post subject: Mass Immigration=NWO Globalism Unchallenged |
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A case of musical chairs or something more sinister?
Brits going abroad for higher paying work, Poles coming here, Asians moving to Poland.
What is the eventual aim? The United States of Europe?
No France, Germany, Britain or Italy?
One language, one currency, one god the $?
With its workers over here, Poland turns east to get the country rebuilt
Thousands of Indians likely to take up offers of jobs building stadiums and roads ready for Euro 2012
Kate Connolly, Maseeh Rahman in New Delhi and Krzysztof Dzieciolowski in Warsaw
Monday June 25, 2007
The Guardian
When Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, quipped recently that he was having trouble finding a decorator, the joke was not lost on a nation that has waved goodbye to hundreds of thousands of westward-bound handymen in the past three years.
But for those in his government responsible for building a network of football stadiums fit to stage a major championships, this is no laughing matter. Poland has five years to regenerate its tired communist-era grounds ready for the 2012 European football championships. But in a country already clattering along with growth rates of around 7%, you just can't get the staff. London's 2012 Olympic headaches look trivial by comparison.
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And so Poland has started to look elsewhere for the bricklayers, roofers, fitters, crane operators and bulldozer drivers who can throw up three stadiums, hotels, airports and hundreds of miles of motorway in quick time. It has found the answer: India.
"There are severe discrepancies in our labour market," said Poland's labour minister, Anna Kalata, who recently travelled to New Delhi to sign a memorandum of understanding with India to entice workers to come to the former eastern bloc country to fill the gaping hole. "The need for labour is particularly acute in the construction sector in the run-up to Euro 2012, and we need you," she told Indians. "The fact that the Polish economy is growing at a rate of over 7% is making the problem even more acute."
Hundreds of thousands are expected to take up the challenge, even though many will have only a tenuous grasp on where Poland is. One Indian newspaper has predicted: "Poland is to be the next hot destination for Indian workers."
Order book
It's not the first case of Poland sucking in overseas labour to fill glaring domestic shortages. Up in the port city of Gdansk, 200 Azeris and Tajiks have been taken on by Poland's largest developer to keep on top of a formidable order book. "It's a brilliant idea," said Jacek Bazan, of JW Construction, referring to the overture to India. "The situation here will only get worse as more skilled workers go to work in western Europe, and who do they expect to build the infrastructure, roads, hotels and stadiums in time for 2012? Once we have more people we'll be able to forge ahead with new projects and create a few hundred jobs at least," he said.
Indian construction workers have a history of proven flexibility, with thousands heading to the Middle East in the late 1970s and 1980s to service a construction boom. But demand for them has slackened since countries there started giving preference to workers from within the region, such as Yemen.
In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 31-year-old master mason Mekulal Kachwaha, whose family have worked in construction for at least three generations, welcomed the news of the new opportunity. Although he had never heard of Poland, he would gladly go to work there. He would be the first member of his family to achieve the Indian worker's dream: a job abroad.
"Only one worker in our village has so far made it abroad - to Saudi Arabia," Mr Kachwaha said. "He's doing very well, and comes back regularly to see his family."
Better future
"If the money is good, I'll definitely go. By doing that, I'll be able to ensure a better future for my children. Moreover, it'll be an opportunity to see the world, something that a poor man like me cannot otherwise dream of," he added.
He said he hoped to at least double his current monthly wage of 10,000 rupees (£125) which he earns working as a foreman in Delhi. In fact, in Poland he would have the opportunity to earn several times his present salary, Polish wages in the sector having doubled in the past year in response to the shortage and a building boom.
Between 800,000 and 2 million Poles are estimated to have left the country since it joined the EU three years ago, including perhaps 400,000 who came to Britain. So when the country won the race to host the 2012 European championship along with Ukraine, joy was tempered with concern at the enormous task ahead.
A key adviser to the 2012 bid says structural preparation is "grossly behind schedule". The country needs to build 600 miles of motorway, five airports, new hotels - there are only 11 five-star hotels in the whole country - and three new stadiums, as well as modernising another three.
The shortage is so dire that the authorities are even reportedly considering using up to 20,000 convicts, under armed guard, to kick-start the construction. The problems are manifest in Warsaw, where construction projects dot the landscape but work proceeds at a ponderous pace.
Some still hold out hope that at least some of the emigrants will return, enticed by the ever-increasing wages, so that the country can avoid turning - for the first time in its history - into a land of immigration. "But these hopes won't be fulfilled as long as the west remains more attractive," said Emil Szwezda, an analyst. |
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Italy tells Romania: We don't want your Roma
1,000 migrants a month arrive in Italian capital £20-a-week wages mean few are likely to go back
Tom Kington in Rome
Tuesday June 26, 2007
The Guardian
Tourists gazing down from Rome's third-century BC Milvian bridge get a glimpse of an idyllic, tree-lined stretch of the Tiber winding its way into the heart of the city. But if they look closer, they can make out a cluster of well-hidden shacks on the river bank built by homeless Roma migrants - many from Romania, a new EU member.
Desperate families sleep under elevated roads that ring the capital, in suburban woods and even, in the case of 14 Romanians discovered by police last month, in a Roman cistern along the Appian Way.
Now, however, amid the surge in immigration - 1,000 Roma arrive from Romania every month - Italy's politicians are starting to take decisive, but controversial, action. Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni flew to Bucharest yesterday to urge the government to discourage its people from leaving in the first place. He has also announced the construction of four huge new camps in the suburbs of the Italian capital to house the arrivals.
"We need to contain the flow from Romania and part of that involves working with child welfare groups to improve conditions and convince parents to stay put," said a town hall official travelling with Mr Veltroni. The party will visit the mayors of three towns - Craiova, Calarasi and Turnu Severin - from where the majority of Rome's new arrivals hail.
There are now around 7,000 Romanian Roma in the Italian capital. "Of those only 1,500 are living in council-run facilities, the rest are in shacks or in the open," said town hall spokesman Enrico Serpieri.
Their presence has generated a succession of confrontations in Italy. An angry mob in Ascoli Piceno, near the Adriatic coast, torched a camp in April after a drunk-driving Roma youth killed four teenagers on a narrow road. Such scenes are yet to occur in Rome, but in May the regional president, Piero Marrazzo, was barracked by a crowd for being soft on immigration when he attended the funeral of Vanessa Russo, a girl from the gritty suburb of Borgata Fidene murdered by a Romanian prostitute during a row.
Livio Galos, an official from Romania's interior ministry who is liaising with the Italian police, said some Roma arrivals were involved in petty theft, although he played down hysterical Italian headlines about a wave of criminals taking Italy by storm. "Thanks to the Romanian education system a few have become expert credit card cloners, but the stories about circus acrobats becoming daredevil burglars is pure myth," he said.
While Mr Veltroni hopes his trip is a success, a Roma spokesman was dubious that many would want to return to Romania while available wages ranged from €20 to €40 (£13 to £27) a week.
Massimo Converso, a spokesman for Italian Roma group Opera Nomadi, said there was, however, an alternative to returning or entering the planned camps, which Mr Veltroni's opponents have likened to prison camps.
"We want to live in houses," he said. "So we are pushing the Italian government to hand over disused public buildings like stations and maintenance buildings along highways." Mr Converso said that after a pilot project saw Roma families move into old farmhouses near Venice he was now eyeing the many abandoned and semi-abandoned medieval hamlets that dot Italy, usually on isolated rocky outcrops. |
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