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Crisis lures Spanish, Greek and Italian professionals to Poland

PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge 09.10.2012 10:07
A growing number of professionals from Spaniards are seeking work in Poland owing to the ongoing financial crisis in much of the eurozone.

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Spanish trade unions demonstrate in Aviles, Spain on Monday: photo - EPA/J.Cereijido

“We are seeing an increasing interest by foreigners to take up jobs in Poland,” Daria Stefanska from the Anta international employment agency Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily.

“This applies especially to people from Spain, Greece and Italy,” she added.

Unemployment is currently about 25 percent in Spain.

Some 350,000 people left the country between 2009 and 2011, mostly between the age of 25 and 35, and it appears that Poland is now emerging as a possible alternative to those struggling to find work.

“The situation has changed drastically in the last few months,” claims Gonzalo Angulo, an assistant professor in at the Academy of Sciences (PAN) in Warsaw.

“Everywhere I go I bump into fellow countrymen,” he says.

From Spain, architects, IT specialists, chefs and Spanish language teachers are among the typical professionals in search of employment in Poland.

“We don't have hard figures, but I can confirm that more and more people are ringing and writing to us asking about work and living conditions [in Poland],” said Natalia Zglinicka, a press spokesperson for the Spanish Embassy in Warsaw.

Warsaw architect Marek Kurylowicz told the paper that he receives several applications a month from Spaniards, a situation which is reflected in other firms.

Some 97 percent of Spanish architects are out of work in their home country at present, owing to a collapse in the construction industry. (nh)

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