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For a long time, Germany has been good to Katarzyna, a 28-year-old Polish woman who works in a pharmacy in Frankfurt during the day and cleans houses in the evenings. In six years, she has earned enough money to buy a sporty Audi and an apartment in Poland, while still having enough cash to travel widely in Europe. Millions of other Poles made similar moves from their home country, especially in the four years since Poland joined the European Union. But now a strong economy in Poland, and an increasingly acute labor shortage, are beckoning migrants like Katarzyna back. She is moving to Warsaw in July. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses the importance of immigration to Europe to support labor shortages. Thought that as the European Union (EU) encroaches on national sovereignty, a nationalist reaction has set in; Suggestion of the European Commission that the EU should shift its policy to the selective encouragement of economic migration; Sentiments of Europeans to immigrants.