Posted on 09/20/2007 3:25:53 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
Prague/Bratislava- Over 34,000 foreigners came to live in the Czech Republic in the first six months of this year, compared to 25,000 in the second half of last year, which proves that the number of immigrants living in the country is rising, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) and foreigner police said today.
According to the foreigner police, a total of 356,014 foreigners lived in the Czech Republic in the first half of this year, compared to 321,456 at the end of 2006. This means that about 34,600 foreigners have arrived in the Czech Republic to stay there permanently or temporarily over the past half a year.
Over the past year, more than 60,000 foreigners decided to stay in the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic still ranks among countries with a low number of foreigners, but the figure is rising.
While at the end of 2005 foreigners accounted for 2.5 percent of the Czech Republic's population, in the middle of this year the figure stood at 3.5 percent.
In the neighbouring Germany and Austria, for example, the share of foreigners is 10 percent, and in Switzerland 20 percent.
Foreigners' interest in living in the Czech Republic has grown mainly thanks to the country's admission to the EU, but mainly thanks to its economic growth, improving living conditions and better job opportunities.
In the first half of this year, 24,300 foreigners came to work in the Czech Republic legally.
The largest group of foreigners staying in the Czech Republic are Ukrainians. In the first half of this year, there were 115,000 Ukrainians with permanent residence or temporary stay permits, while three years ago there were 70,500 of them.
Ukrainians also make up the second biggest group of employees coming from abroad, the first one being Slovaks.
In the first half of this year, almost 49,000 Ukrainians worked in the Czech Republic legally, but another thousands of them are estimated to work in the country illegally.
Ukrainians also form the biggest group of foreigners with residence permits in Slovakia but, compared to the Czech Republic, their number is low.
In the first half of this year, only 630 Ukrainians received residence permits in Slovakia.
Doing work Czechs wont do.
I wonder if Slovakia is having second thoughts about the split they had from Czechoslovakia.
At least they know how many foreigners are living there.
Czech Republic has always been high on my list of places where I’d like to live...:)
The home of Petra Nemcova and other beautiful ladies!!
I lived in neighboring Poland for a while...while Poland has the edge with beautiful ladies, I have always really like the Czech Republic...I visited a couple of times when I lived in Poland and really enjoyed the scenery...and the beer...also, some of my distant relatives own a crystal factory in Karlovy Vary...then there’s the legendary beer spa that I read about on the internet...
do I really need to continue? :)
In search of a Czechmate?
I don’t think they have counted the ones hanging out on the Charles Bridge.
“I wonder if Slovakia is having second thoughts about the split they had from Czechoslovakia.:
Not at all. Everyone here is doing quite nicely, thank you.
15% flat tax drops to 12.5% in 2009.
yes!
well...Poland and the Czech Republic were essentially freed from the shackles of Communism at the same time. I lived over ther in 96-97. In my time that I spent there, it seemed to me that the Czechs had done more to take the bull by the horns and clean up the mess left behind by 45 years of that quagmire. Now, it was not only Prague that I had visited. This seemed to be true throughout the country as we drove from place to place on our tour bus. Not only the “attractions,” mind you, but from my observations of the entire country as a whole. People seemed to be more industrious in keeping up their buildings and possessions than in Poland (sorry to my Polish friends). Also, they seem to have been well ahead of the Poles in repairing or replacing infrastructure that had crumbled during the 45 years in the wilderness. Did I mention the beer?
Poland, also has made great strides in the years since the communist party voted itself out of existance. on youtube is a video of the city where i lived in that was made in 1989. If you visit Bydgoszcz now, you wouldn’t believe that it was the same place as in that video. Even in 1996 it was greatly improved! They’ve been building freeways at a good clip in Poland too...I think they had just completed their first stretch of freeway when I lived there. It went from Katowice to Krakow.
Maybe the reason is that the Czechs are more like the Germans in their work ethic? Maybe it is the whole Protestant/Catholic difference (we’re talking generalities here...kindly lay off the flamethrowing). I dunno...
“it seemed to me that the Czechs had done more to take the bull by the horns and clean up the mess left behind by 45 years of that quagmire.”
It’s not about cleaning up anything. When communism was falling down Czechia was a much better developed country than Poland. The only ex-commie countries, which made better progress than Poland are Baltic states and Slovakia.
I see...so the Czechs never left things to decay as far...
One thing about Communism...the government owns everything...therefore, it is not your house that you live in, but the governments. Many people in Poland figured: “Well, it isn’t my house. Why should I take care of it? If it falls down, the government needs to replace it.”
What you are saying is that this attitude did not take hold in Czechia as much as it had in other countries?
I’d never heard how Czechs called their own country’s name before...:) In Poland, it was Czechy...
No. If USA and Mexico became communistic countries then even after decades the first one would still be a better developed country. Czech land and Hungary has been “historically” much better developed than Poland, Ukraine or Romania.
No out-of-state Czechs accepted. :-)
All I know is the foreigners better not mess up Czesky Krumlov - that is THE FIRST place I am visiting, even before Prague. I fell in love with the city just by way of a clickable map thats on the internet.
And the percentage of them that are muslim?
anyone?
anyone?
Beuler?
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