Majority of Poles think foreigners should be free to work in Poland: poll
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Nearly two out of three Polish citizens – 62 percent – are in favor of foreigners taking up work in Poland even as less than 29 percent opine that the access to the Polish labor market should be limited, shows the latest survey conducted by the Warsaw-based public opinion research body CBOS.
As few as four percent of the respondents interviewed stated that foreigners should not be permitted at all to work in the country.
On being asked about the country of origin of most immigrants coming to Poland for work, as many as 93 percent of the pollees said they thought it was Ukraine. Other places of origin of immigrants were chosen much less frequently by the interviewees – Belarusians (23 percent), Vietnamese (21 percent) and Chinese (12 percent).
The largest number of immigrants to Poland comes from Ukraine, according to the Polish foreign office, followed by Belarusians, Germans, Russians, and Vietnamese.
