Brexit Flight to Shift 30,000 Jobs to Poland, Minister Says
- Government spoke to 30 companies about moving jobs to Poland
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Poland will attract as many as 30,000 British jobs to its business-service sector this year, its government said, as the biggest eastern European Union member tries to lure companies considering leaving the U.K. after it voted to depart from the bloc.
Following the outflow of more than a million Poles to Britain and other western European countries since the country gained EU membership in 2004, the government in Warsaw is trying to bring them back. Part of that is a multi-year, 1 trillion-zloty ($245 billion) plan to make the economy more innovative and rely on domestic capital rather than investment from abroad, deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Monday. Poland spoke with more than 30 financial and other companies last year over moving parts of their workforce from the U.K. after Brexit, he said.