Poland Wants to Poach Thousands of U.K. Finance Jobs

Poland is seeking to fill the space between “Le Pen and the Eurocrats” in talks over the U.K.’s departure from the European Union and is pushing to win tens of thousands of jobs from Britain’s financial sector, a top government official said.

The conservative Law & Justice-led cabinet, which has drawn criticism from EU leaders for backsliding on democracy, sees euroskeptic French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and the European officials pushing for deeper integration as two extremes, Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in an interview on Tuesday. Both are wrong, and Poland, which backs the “unity of Europe and the EU,” will demand the trading bloc builds its relations solely based on “common-sense,” he said.