Poland should become a country of immigration

Eurostat predicts that owing to its low birth rate Poland's total population will sink from its present level of just over 38 million inhabitants to 31 million by 2060. Sociologist Lena Kolarska-Bobińska, director of the Warsaw Institute of Public Affairs, writes in a commentary in Polska newspaper that Poland should become a country of immigration for economic refugees from the East. "We need ... to facilitate access for immigrants. Many European countries have already done this. This must be coupled with measures to promote the integration of newcomers. I am not talking here about refugees, who are equated with immigrants nowadays, but about opening up the country to people who want to settle in Poland for economic reasons. The most promising approach would be to open up to our Eastern neighbours because their integration is likely to be comparatively easy."

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