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Interesting development....
For the first time in 25 years: More Poles are leaving Germany than entering
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Germany, long one of the main destinations for Polish emigration, recorded a decline in 2024 for the first time since 2000.
Destatis data shows that 90,807 non-Germans moved from Germany to Poland in 2024. 82,082 people emigrated in the other direction.
Although Poles have long been moving to Germany, the number of emigrants increased sharply after 2011, when Germany fully opened its labor market to workers from Poland and the seven other countries that joined the EU in 2004.
"According to the German Statistical Office, more Poles will return to our country from emigration than emigrate to Germany in 2024," writes Andrzej Kubisiak, deputy director of the Polish Institute of Economic Research (PIE), in a post on the X platform.
"The trend is broader and also applies to other CEE countries, but given the demographic challenges, this is good news for Poland," he adds.
German media, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), also commented......
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.....By comparison, Poland's economy has grown faster than any other EU country over the past three decades.
According to Kubisiak, there are no longer such strong incentives to emigrate among Poles or residents of Poland in general.
During the event "Deregulation. We're removing obstacles, we're making life easier," held on Monday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk praised the country's economic development.
"The Polish economy will rank 20th in the world by 2025, overtaking Switzerland, and the purchasing power of a Pole is higher than that of a Japanese," Tusk said....
Sounds good! Soon Germans will come for work....or our immigrants, that is...