I thought we had a thread on this a while back but searching has not helped me locate one...
This article claims that the number of people who have emigrated from Romania in the last 10 years is 3.4 million, or 17% of the population. This according to the UN's figures puts Romania in second place in the world for emigration behind...Syria. [There are some doubts over the figures and some argue that many of those people have gone away for a short time, and the actual figure of emigrants is something like a mere 2 million]. Whatever the truth, it is clear that we have a massive problem. And it cuts across all aspects of society - from not having enough doctors to local restaurants closing because they can't get waitstaff. Whole villages are empty, and in some rural parts of the country you rarely see anyone aged between 16 and 40.
The article also notes that we have an incredibly low level of immigration - currently 117,000 foreigners (hi!), of whom 3900 are refugees or similar.
It seems that there is a lot of discussion in the international media over the issues associated with immigration, but far less discussion of the issues associated with emigration, which are huge and much more prone to rip society apart.
This article claims that the number of people who have emigrated from Romania in the last 10 years is 3.4 million, or 17% of the population. This according to the UN's figures puts Romania in second place in the world for emigration behind...Syria. [There are some doubts over the figures and some argue that many of those people have gone away for a short time, and the actual figure of emigrants is something like a mere 2 million]. Whatever the truth, it is clear that we have a massive problem. And it cuts across all aspects of society - from not having enough doctors to local restaurants closing because they can't get waitstaff. Whole villages are empty, and in some rural parts of the country you rarely see anyone aged between 16 and 40.
The article also notes that we have an incredibly low level of immigration - currently 117,000 foreigners (hi!), of whom 3900 are refugees or similar.
It seems that there is a lot of discussion in the international media over the issues associated with immigration, but far less discussion of the issues associated with emigration, which are huge and much more prone to rip society apart.
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