Polish Citizenship Bill ‘halfway favourable’ for integration, ‘average’ in EU

 
Today at the MIPEX III Poland event, I listened to integration experts come up with ways that their country could set more favourable legal conditions for the integration of immigrants. The Polish Constitutional Court is still reviewing the 2009 ‘Citizenship Bill’ that Parliament passed but the President vetoed in April 2009. According to my own unofficial MIPEX prospective impact assessment, if this Bill were to become law, access to Polish nationality would now be ‘average’ for EU Member States and have at least a halfway favourable impact on integration in Poland....Poland is slowly but surely transforming into a country of immigration. Like the ‘average’ EU country, its integration policies only marginally improved in three years as its MIPEX score went up 1-out-of-100 points between 2007 and 2010. Still better access to self-employment and victimisation protections were not enough for Poland to maintain its ranking on integration policies. It lost three places to Austria, the Czech Republic, and Greece, as other immigration countries are catching up faster on the basics like entitlement to naturalisation and EU-required discrimination protections...Read in full on the MIPEX Blog