President campaigns to persuade emigrants to return

During a meeting with Sejm deputies and NGO's on Wednesday he said he would launch a campaign to get Poles who emigrated to the UK, Ireland and elsewhere, after Poland joined the EU in 2004, to return home. President Kaczyński  added that he will be the patron of the initiative, and his office will prepare within the next six months a package of amendments to laws to encourage Poles to return. He will have his work cut out, as the government estimates that since Poland's accession to the EU, around 1.2 million Poles have gone abroad and that at least 20% do not want to return to Poland, while 20% are planning to do so, with the remaining 60% still unsure of their next move - and it is this last group that Poland should try to persuade to come back. One method the government will use is to open new consulates in places where Poles are a large minority; organizing job fares abroad and so making it easier for Poles to look for work before they return to Poland. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A5; Polish Radio)