The Czech Republic is planning in 2016 to take another 250 immigrants from Ukraine

Alexander Kuranov. Another 250 immigrants from Ukraine expects to receive Czech Republic in 2016, said Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, speaking in the national Parliament.

"at my request the interior Minister Milan to khovanets, will prepare a paper on the outcome of the process of repatriation from Ukraine to the country of the descendants of immigrants from the Czech Republic, which began In the current year. After discussion of this document in the government will be made the conclusion about the continuation of the process. I assume that in 2016 we can take Another 250 immigrants from Ukraine ", - said Sobotka.

according to his statement, the number of "Ukrainian Czechs" who want to move on continuous residence in the Czech Republic, much higher than the above figures, the Prime Minister and nourishes the hope that the repatriation process will continue in subsequent years.

The repatriation process began with several references of Inhabitants of Ukraine who have Czech roots, Czech President Milos Zeman. They asked the head of the country to assist them in moving to the Czech Republic due to the difficult economic situation and military conflict in Eastern Ukraine. Zeman responded quickly to this call, and gave assignments to the heads of the foreign Ministry and the interior Ministry to review them and start the procedure of repatriation.

The first two groups of 144 immigrants from the Ukraine, who lived in the village Chehohrad, and similarly in a number of cities Zaporizhzhya and Volyn regions, arrived in Prague by bus and on specially allocated by the government of the Republic of the aircraft in March this year. In the following months in the Czech Republic came in small groups of about 100 people.

upon arrival to the Czech Republic to All returnees for six months provided free apartments to live in. Each adult Ukrainian was gratuitously issued 50 thousand CZK ($2080) plus for each child, for 20 thousand euros (830 dollars). All they are eligible for permanent residency, putting them almost equal rights with the regional inhabitants, depriving as long as only the right to participate in elections.

for six months, the Czech authorities provided the migrants to adapt (this time, if necessary, has the possibility to be extended), They get health insurance, improve the knowledge of the Czech language, which a vast number have moved already partly has. Most local firms have the pleasure of giving immigrants work in occupations of average skill, because in this segment now, according to the Czech Ministry of industry, in the country there is a shortage of labour, at least about 100 thousand vacant jobs.

Just for 2015 the Czech government has allocated for the Repatriation process 66 million kronor (2, 75 million dollars).

The Czechs appeared in Ukraine in the mid-19th century at the urging of the Imperial government for developing sparsely populated territories, but since the middle of last century, They gradually began to return to their homeland. A big wave of immigrants arrived in the Czech Republic immediately upon completion of the Second world war, a second wave followed in the early 1990-ies that was caused by the collapse of the USSR and the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.


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