STREET CZECH

Some foreign workers will not have their visas extended

9. 3. 2010 / Fabiano Golgo

Honza, 18, student from Prague: "It depends, some jobs will never be taken by us [Czechs], so it's better if we have some Ukrainians and Polacs here, for that".

Josef Kučera, 26, waiter, from Kroměřiž: "We have too many foreigners here. If they are well behaved, I don't mind, but when they just come to make money and don't pay taxes, but then gets sick and wants treatment from my contributions, then I think they should look for some richer country, like Germany".

Tereza Kleknerová, 49, housewife, from Prague: "It is an illusion to think that those jobs will be fulfilled by Czech workers. Most of the unemployed are unemployable. What they need is training, to learn new professions and stuff like that. It sounds like pre-election demagoguery".

Markéta Francová, 28, accountant, from Liberec: "Those workers from that level will not go back home just like that. It will be a waste of time and probably would create another trouble: many would try to stay and, for that to be possible, will enter the criminal niches, but certainly not just go back, like that, empty-handed".

Jindřich Hympl, 68, retired, from Zlín: "We don't have a problem with foreigners taking our jobs, it is the owners who take them. Many of our people don't want to work in certain things anymore, so we need foreigners to do the hard labour. It is a sign of our evolution in terms of capitalism, no? So I am against any stupid social engineering, it won't help anybody..."

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