(by Francesco Bongarrà) (ANSA) - WARSAW - Poland is about to pass - next week - a bill to boost the inverse brain drain. The government is hoping that the tax credits provided by the new law will encourage about 2m young workers to return to their homeland. Poland has been suffering a lot from brain drain (especially highly qualified people) since its entry into the EU, now 15 years ago. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the tax credits will give new opportunities to young Poles who left the country and underlined that about 2 million people could return to their homeland. Presenting the provisions of the measure, which is now at the beginning of its parliamentary path, Morawiecki said that 1.7m people left Poland in the last 15 years. "It is as if the whole city of Warsaw had gone, a huge loss. This bad trend must end, the youth should stay in Poland," the PM added. Moreover, those who left the country were not only the 'classic' Polish plumbers who were the bogeyman of the first Brexiters in the United Kingdom, but also many highly qualified and well-educated migrants. At any rate, there is a shortage of labor in Poland, therefore the government realized that they need to run for cover. However, not everyone is convinced of the effectiveness of the new bill. "To keep young people at home, you need to create opportunities for them, not just make them pay fewer taxes. It's not all about money," said Heather Rolfe, a researcher at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London.

According to the expert, "a high salary is important for young people, but it's not everything". The United Kingdom was the first destination in the EU for young Polish jobseekers: currently, about one million Poles live there. The government in Warsaw is now hoping that Brexit will be an incentive for fellow citizens to leave the UK and return to their homeland. (ANSA).