How did the warm friendship with Ukraine develop? Why is the Czech Republic among the first in line for a queue that doesn’t even exist?
2005: discrimination against legal migration. How could Yushchenko make life easier for Ukrainian workers in the Czech Republic?
When Václav Klaus came on an official visit to Ukraine six months ago, there was talk of 200 000 Ukrainians in the Czech Republic and the need to legalize their stay. The Ukrainians seemed to regard all their fellow citizens on Czech territory as illegal workers. The equation – what Ukrainian in the Czech Republic is an illegal worker – is far from valid.
Source https://migraceonline.cz/diskriminace-legalni-migrace-jak-by-mohl-juscenko-ulehcit-zivot-ukrajinskym-pracovnikum-v-cr
2007: more EU countries let Czechs into their labour markets
The Netherlands has given the green light, the stop sign applies to six EU countries. The Netherlands announced late on Friday night that it was opening its labour market to European Union members who joined in 2004. That means workers from the Czech Republic as well. Czechs can now still work without a permit from the “old” member states in Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Finland, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Source https://aktualne.cz/dalsi-zeme-unie-pusti-cechy-na-svuj-trh-prace/
2011: transition period in the EU ends, Germany and Austria open their labour markets to Czechs
The transition period in the EU is coming to an end and the labour markets in Germany and Austria will be opened for Czechs. As of 1 May this year, the last two EU Member States, Germany and Austria, will also end the transitional arrangements that have protected their labour markets from cheap labour from the new Member States. For the Czechs, this means that for the first time since 2004, when the Czech Republic became a full member of the Union, they are free to go to the whole of the EU-27 to work. But are they interested in working abroad?
Source https://cesky.radio.cz/prechodne-obdobi-v-eu-konci-i-v-nemecku-a-rakousku-se-otevrou-pracovni-trhy-pro
2016: the Ukraine regime, 1.2 times the guaranteed wage and other efforts to ensure a sufficient number of Ukrainians for the Czech labour market
In August 2016, after long negotiations, the Ukraine Regime was launched by the Government of the Czech Republic. The project was intended to facilitate the administration and therefore speed up the process of legalisation of workers from Ukraine. However, the number of Ukrainians employed in this way was limited to 19,600 persons. The success of the project and the increasing demand of Czech employers for staff from the East literally forced the Czech government to increase the quota.
Source https://workintense.cz/ukrajinci-budou-jako-zdroj-pracovni-sily-v-cr-postupne-mizet-tvrdi-odbornici-stane-se-nemecko-volbou
2019: For Ukrainians, working in the Czech Republic is no longer so attractive. Germany will soon open up for them, Shokalo warns
Jan Wiesner, president of the Confederation of Employers’ and Business Unions of the Czech Republic, spoke out against the proposal of Czech Labour Minister Jana Maláčová (ČSSD) to give Ukrainians a wage advantage over Czech workers on ČT24’s Ninety Minutes. Pavel Juříček (ANO), deputy chairman of the Economic Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, and Jan Bauer (ODS), deputy chairman of the Economic Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, shared a similar opinion.
Source https://ceskatelevize.cz/ukrajinci-nejsou-v-cesku-spatne-placeni-soudi-wiesner-tuzemske-firmy-je-potrebuji
2022: Poland receives twice as many refugees from Ukraine as the Czech Republic on a per capita basis
The withdrawal of Russians from Ukrainian territory towards Donbas is an encouraging signal for many fleeing Ukrainians. They are now returning to their homeland. Polish authorities say that the number of those leaving the country has now exceeded the number of those arriving. This trend is confirmed by other countries. Poland is one of the main destinations for Ukrainian refugees. As of 24 May, the country had received a total of 3 544 995 fleeing Ukrainians, according to UN statistics.
Source idnes.cz/ukrajina-valka-polsko-uprchlici-italie-nizozemsko
2023: It sounds cynical, but the Czech Republic is profiting from the Russia-Ukraine war
It’s hard to say, but we should say it more often: we Czechs are profiting from this war too. Our private arms factories have contributed an extra two billion to the state budget in the last year. 120 billion crowns worth of licences were issued here. The Czech taxpayer is not paying for this; on the contrary, it is making money out of it. It is paid labour.
Source seznamzpravy.cz/tomas-pojar-zni-to-cynicky-ale-zapad-na-rusko-ukrajinske-valce-vydelava