Europe is migrating

What will Europe look like in the future? asks Polish journalist Andrzej Stasiuk. "Will certain regions, like eastern Poland or southern Italy, become completely depopulated? The poor are migrating to the rich cities of Western Europe. At the airport in Crakow, Stasiuk watched travellers to Paris and Munich cast suspicious looks at a group of young Poles headed for Dublin. "Perhaps they didn't like the idea that their fate is in the hands of these young people – that somewhere something had gone wrong and Western civilisation was now damned to eternal dependence on the barbarians of the east because its own powers are failing. Unless it could come up with some kind of humanoid robots, or import clones to work as slaves from China – because sooner or later China will start producing clones and selling them cheap."

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