Polish passport more valuable than American passport

Sounds great. Problem is, the ranking Sikorski cites has a certain structural trap. Poland is indeed in Henley Passport Index's ‘seventh basket’, but this does not mean it is seventh. 4 states are ranked fourth, 7 are fifth, and six are sixth. Only after them comes the seventh group, in which Poland was located. In practice, our passport ranks about 21st.

Sikorski, however, spoke not only about passports, but besides about something much more important: about the feeling of pride. – A large nation is not 1 that encapsulates in its cultural core, but 1 that attracts others that makes others want to become like us. – explained. And he added that for the first time in almost 3 centuries more Poles return to the country than they leave it. – I say this myself as an old emigrant who returned to Poland and does not regret said the Minister. According to Sikorski for Polishness simply became a business. – Poland has become fashionable, people abroad discover their Polishness and feel for it – explains. – I'm not saying that theoretically, but it has its applicable expression in that we are issuing thousands of fresh passports. We reconstruct citizenship, people want to live in Poland – not only in the erstwhile russian Union but besides in Latin America, the mediate East and North America. The minister tells a communicative about a country that has become a center from the periphery. In fact, Poland is the twentieth economy of the planet today, and its infrastructure is increasingly not giving up on German. The French and the British are buying retirement homes here, and immigrants from the 2000s are increasingly reasoning about returning.

The passport has thus become more than a paper – it is simply a symbol of the promotion of civilization and a tool to realize how much the planet around us has changed. Until late we were in line in front of the embassies, present we decide who we let in. It is simply a insignificant difference in everyday life, but immense in mentality: from a nation asking for approval we became a nation invited and inviting.

But if you look cooler, our Hungarian neighbors are better off in the same ranking. The passport of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, was placed in the "sixteenth basket". Hungarians have visa-free entry into the US, they belong to Schengen, they keep correct relations with China and Russia, and with arabian countries live without much tension. Looking passportly – their pragmatic policy works.

This does not mean that Sikorski is wrong. His words about “fashion to Polish” are alternatively a language of political mobilization. due to the fact that it is among migrants present that there is an election potential. Over 700 1000 Poles voted in the last presidential elections abroad. Platform politicians, with whom I talked about this subject, say that it is an electorate separated from Polish politics and plastic, prone to extremist changes from elections to elections. Moreover, activists hope that in the next elections, mobilization among Polonia will be even greater than last time. Nawrocki's minimum triumph over Trzaskowski (about 360 1000 votes of difference) showed that any vote could be in the future on the weight of gold.

Sikorski is most likely already reasoning about the 2030 presidential election and trying to sense the speech that will combine emotions with pragmatism. The communicative of a strong passport as a national symbol of pride may in this sense be the beginning of a longer campaign.

Because even if this is not the seventh place, but the seventh basket, the very fact that we are in it is revolutionary.