Almost 185,000 Romanians are recorded in the official statistics as having left the country in 2014 and more than three quarters of them chose Italy, Spain, UK and Germany as their destination, according to the data published in Romania’s Statistical Yearbook 2015.
The opening of the labor market for Romanians and Bulgarians in 2014 did not generate the dreaded invasion of Romanians in countries like UK, Germany, Austria, Belgium and France.
Most Romanians who left the country in 2014 chose Italy (55,000, 7% fewer than in 2013) and Spain (more than 32,700, 46% more than in 2013).
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)