Interior Ministry wants to send jobless foreigners home

In connection with the crisis, the Czech Interior Ministry has drafted a plan to help send foreigners who have lost their jobs back to their home country. The ministry says it is willing to cover their travel expenses and give them an additional 500 euros for a voluntary return since it fears that if left to fend for themselves 15 percent would be sucked into the underworld and 80 percent would find work on the black market. The first to have been affected by the crisis are Vietnamese and Mongolian workers. The ministry’s proposal reckons with the departure of about 2,000 foreign workers and if approved by the government would require 55 million crowns of state funds.