Interior Ministry plans to offer incentives to foreign unemployed to return home

The Czech Interior Ministry is planning to offer workers from non-EU countries, who have lost their jobs because of the global crisis, a ticket and a 500-euro bonus if they return home, Mladá fronta Dnes reported on Wednesday. Minister Ivan Langer will propose to the cabinet next week to spend a total of 55 million crowns (2.5 million USD) to this end. The ministry expects about 2,000 foreign workers to use the incentive, and predicts that some 12,000 foreign workers could lose their jobs in the first quarter of this year because of the global economic downturn.