Good News from the ECAS Conference!!!

EuroMI representatives took active part in an ECAS conference in Brusseles, today on the 16th of March 2007. MEPs Jean Lomberdt and Jan Kulakowski also took part in the conference. Jerome Vignon, from the EU Commision on Employment, Sosial Policy and Equal Opportunities told the EuroMi representatives that the answer to the EuroMi appeal had been already sent.

2 important conferences with EuroMI
representatives as participants!!!
EuroMI representatives have been invited to a  CEC conference (Comite Europeene de Coordination) called "European Values, Identity and Religion Consultation". The conference will be held in London on  the 14th of March. The EuroMI representatives will take advantage of their stay in the UK to meet media representatives, UKpartners and volunteers. Later on on the 16th of March the EuroMI team will go to Brussels to attend ECAS conference ( European Citizen Action Service) on "Revommendations for policy action on workers' mobility". You can find programmes of the 2 conferences below. 
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A reportage on Social Cooperatives and the Barka Foundation
We present the best reportage ever on social cooperatives and the Barka Foundation. The programme presents the chance that social cooperatives give to the socially excluded.
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Migration & Dignity- Global Health
The EuroMI team got invited to the 3rd Pathway in Neaples, a conference on Migration and health related issues. The conference will be held in Neaples on the 23-24 March.
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Support the Swedish Immigrant Institute!
The Immigrant Institute is a multicultural organization which has existed for 33 years with Sweden’s largest library containing books by immigrants and immigration research, an archive and a museum. There is also an internet portal providing information on migration, which every day is of use to immigrant organizations, Swedish libraries, schools, researchers and government administrators.
Support their petition asking for fair treatment before it is too late. Government support for the Immigrant Institute has diminished during several years. The National Board of Cultur (Kulturrådet) has repeatedly diminished the support for the institute
Go to  http://www.immi.se (English) or http://www.immi.se/upprop-english/esorder.cgi and support the Institute appeal

Franco Frattini's Lecture on migration
We present a lecture Mr Franco Frattini,  a vice-president of the EU Commission and commissioner responsible for justice, freedom and security gave in London on the 23rd of February 2007. The lecture explains why the EU has a key role to play in the Europe-wide debate about immigration, social integration and economic development.
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"Le Figaro" on Polish migrants
We present a French article on the situation of Polish migrants in france and Grate Britain. The article was consulted with Ewa Sadowska, the EuroMI coordinator.
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II National Civic Congress in Warsaw.
The Second Civic Congress will take place in the Warsaw Technical University on the 10th of March 2007. It will be an open debate of around 1000 Poles from various background, generations and regions of Poland. The  meeting is going to have the following motto: " Development through community and competivity". "What benefits have the polish migration brought to Poland's modernisation" is going to be a  topic of one of the thematic session in the Congress.

EuroMI Internship
Małgorzata Wiktorowicz, a Pole living in London has arrived to Poznan today to begin her EuroMI internship. Małgorzata will be introduced to the Barka Foundation system and will take part in various partnerships meetings around Poznan. She will also visit Centres for Social, Integration, social cooperatives and accessible housing settlement in Poznan.

 “Human rights protection against poverty and social exclusion" a seminar in Wroclaw
 Re-Generation representatives took active part in a seminar called "Human rights protection against poverty in social exclusion" organised by a Polish MEP Lidia Geringer de Odenberg in Wrocław on the 3rd of March 2007. They presented various programmes carried out by the Holding of Barka Foundation. The presentation has also shown how the projects are linked and combined within the EuroMI network. The Conference concentrated on social economy issues and their presence in the EU policy. Polish experience and good practices were presented by the following organisations: St. Celestine Association, the Barka Foundation, St Albert's Shelter, PRO-EKO social cooperative, and www.PROMOTION.  The participants had also had the possibility of getting to know the activities of a Scottish non profit organisation Furniture Plus which is planning to take part in creating a network of cooperation with Polish organisations.
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The EuroMI project will open the ECAS Conference in Brussels
 EuroMi representatives have been invited to present their project during the opening session at the ECAS Conference (European Citizen Action Service) organised in Brussels on the 16th of March 2007. The conference will concentrate mainly on the work migrants problems.  Jérome Vignôn, the Director of the European Commission Department for Employment, Social affairs and Equal Opportunities will also take part in the session together with MEPs Jean Lambert and Jan Kulakowski. The EuroMi representatives have been asked to make a 10 minute presentation and to take part in the discussion in the second part of the conference. 20 experts on migration and 100 participants will take part in the seminar concerning "work migration" phenomena in the context of the past Year of Workers Mobility. As a result of the seminar a recommendation for European workers mobility policy makers should be made. The conference will take place in Résidence Palace in Brussels
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Migrants have lifted British economy, says study.
The flow of migrant workers into the UK has boosted economic growth and helped keep a lid on inflation without undermining the jobs of British-born workers, according to a study released yesterday.
The report by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers enters a vigorous debate about whether immigration has a positive impact on the UK economy
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Jobless Poles swell rise in migrants from the east
Deepening unemployment in Poland has fuelled an unexpected 20,000 increase in east European migrants coming to Britain last year, bringing the number to 232,000, according to Home Office figures published yesterday
source: The Guardian
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01.03.2007

 Negative effects of work migration are visible in Poland
Nritain are visible to 52% of Polish companies facing difficulties in finding employees. 22% of Polish companies fears that thye are going to face similar problems in the nearest future.
source: Gazeta Wyborcza 1 st of March 2007.