Reporter Al Jazeera talks to 23-year-old Samantha, who left his home page and left for London. So, how many Poles, it will work in services, specifically in the hotel. The scene is quite depressing for her friends bid farewell to the station, some of them probably will follow in her footsteps.
– Such emotional scenes played out every day at the bus station in Bytom. The city’s population decreased by 50 thousand. residents for the past 20 years. Thousands of people fly out of the country, and politicians are not able to do anything to stop them – a British reporter recounts.
– It used to be six coal mines here, now there is only one, chasing the cheaper, Far competition – explains the reporter. – Parishes aging, more people die than are born. Who will take care of the older generation in the future? – Asks Tim Friend.
The journalist also mentions serious financial injection for the city, in the amount of 100 million euros . This is money from the European Union. Theoretically should help stop the residents, but if you become different, according to Arab television, the city will save nothing. – The situation is very difficult. The only thing we can do is slow down the negative trend, these people we can not stop – explains Robert Krzysztofik from the University of Silesia, who is the author of publications on the depopulation of Bytom and Sosnowiec.
Feature caused controversy. On the forum under the video, posted on the station channel on YouTube, there are plenty of comments. As noted by one of the users, the reporter not very thoroughly examined the topic. “At the beginning you have to take into account the fact that Radzionkow with a population of 16 thousand., Since 1998. Bytom is not a part of.” Another believes that good that foreign media are interested in the situation in Poland. Someone wisely notes that a typical case of Bytom mining town in Poland.
(MW)
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