Growing number of homeless emigrants and growing racism in Ireland and Western Europe

According to Onet.eu and Merchants Quay Ireland (organisation helping drug addicted and homeless people), number of homeless emigrants from Poland, Lithuania and Latvia is growing rapidly in Dublin. In my opinion the myth of Ireland as a “Promised Land” is still valid, so many people come to Ireland completely unprepared and without money. Having 200 or 300 Euro, without return ticket to Poland, without booked hostel, poor English language, must result in rapid loose of money for B&B, food and attempts to find a job. After couple of weeks some of the new emigrants are broke and end up on the street.

Meanwhile, Onet.eu, according to Agency for Fundamental Rights, mentioned about growing racism tendencies in Western Europe and Ireland. The number of racist attacks in the EU has increased by 20% since year 2000. The highest rise of racial attacks took place in Denmark (by 70%), France (by 62%), Great Britain (by 15%).

The country with the one of the lowest increase of the racist tendencies was Germany (only 2%).

According to Onet.eu and AFR, Ireland is on the 5th place of the most racist countries in European Union:
1. Denmark
2. Slovakia
3. France
4. Scotland
5. Ireland

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Irish prisoners overseas

Today’s Irish Independent on page 9 devotes its attention to the issue of Irish prisoners being jailed abroad. It is quite interesting to find out that in so remote countries Irish people see the world through the bars. In the article there was no any information about the causes of imprisonment, only the numbers were shown. According to the Department of Foreign affairs there are 708 Irish prisoners in UK, 28 in USA, 14 in Spain, 8 in Germany, 6 in France, 5 in Portugal, 3 in Australia, 2 in Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Brazil, and 1 each in Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, Sweden, Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Morocco, Thailand, Japan, Belgium, Denmark and Latvia.

I wonder how many of my Polish compatriots is being jailed in Ireland, or all over the world.

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