"The U.K.'s divorce from the EU is proving a bittersweet affair for Poland's finance minister.
On the one hand, the eastern European nation will lose a political ally: Poland and Britain are closely aligned on issues from deregulation to concern over yielding powers to Brussels, according to Mateusz Morawiecki, who's also deputy prime minister. But on the other, Brexit may ease a labor shortage in Poland that he calls a "major headache."
"I like that Brexit is pushing some Polish citizens out of the U.K., because it's bringing more qualified workers, more experienced workers" home, Morawiecki said Wednesday in an interview in London.
Much of Europe's ex-communist east is suffering from a dearth of workers as citizens seek higher wages in other parts of the continent. At almost one million, Poles are the U.K.'s biggest immigrant group. Unemployment in Poland is at a record-low 5 percent."
Poland wants its workers back.