Latvians are not ready to “process” a lot of migrants from the East – Rungainis

Migration and labor shortages are indeed a very complex issue. Our advantage is that we have seen how other countries solved this – for example, Germany after World War II was happy to send away Latvian refugees, but soon after that they began to accept Turkish workers en masse, which they needed in their factories. Latvians have successfully resettled to Canada, the USA, Australia and many other countries. This is how entrepreneur Girts Rungainis began to explain this pressing problem on TV24.

“We see Sweden, where the “progressives” for a long time said that they had a conscience and called on everyone to come to them. Now, out of a population of 10 million, about two million are newcomers or their descendants. This creates enormous tension,” the businessman states .

Rungainis called for attention to the fact that there are religions that are completely unprepared to live in peace: as soon as their share in some place increases, they actually begin to fight against everyone else.

“It is clear that Latvia and the Latvians are what they are at the moment, they are not ready for mass migrations. We have still not been able to acclimatize and “process” the colonialists who came here in Soviet times and their “remnants.” The debate about language! And in this situation, the arrival of many young, poorly educated representatives of a different culture, predominantly male, will all create problems!” – Rungainis illustrates the situation.

At the moment, there are already quite a lot of studies in a number of European countries, indicating that this is the same as with “green” energy: as the entrepreneur says, you take into account all the costs, you calculate them properly, and in the end you still see that you will not attract any people here who will pay you pensions, since refugees, as a rule, have an extremely low level of education.

If we return to the competitiveness of Latvia, the question again arises – why would these people go here, and not to Tallinn or Vilnius.

For example, nannies, cleaners and representatives of similar professions travel to Scandinavia in large numbers from the Philippines and the region where Christianity and other peaceful religions predominate; the situation is easier with Asia, but it is much more difficult with the Middle East and areas where Islam predominates. This is when people are not able to integrate into modernization, Rungainis believes.