Romania plans to bring in up to 100,000 foreign workers next year

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  1. Who’ll stay for a few years, get citizenship and head off to Germany.

    Sounds like a backdoor way of economic migrants, finding a way into the EU.

  2. We are now in this cycle of bringing in more foreign workers to make sure wages don’t go up. In 2016 low wages started to increase fast and the tourist industry refused to pay so they put pressure on the parliament to change the law. News media did not report on it. We got a unanimous vote in a political crisis with massive government protests.

    Before 2019 we had a minimum staring salary for foreign workers at the national average so only skilled labor was coming in at around 5000 a year were companies didn’t have a choice on the local level or in EU. Now there are no restriction and they want to replace all workes that leave for EU to make sure there in no pressure on wages.

  3. I wonder how this will work with the pre-existing massive xenophobia.

    Especially since some of them are South Asian and we have a big minority with not that great a reputation, also from South Asia.

    Hopefully things go well.

  4. I have to admit… that romanians somehow figured out how to do the math and get the most results (property) for a given set of investment from the EU, find the cheapest workers to do it for them.

    While this gets them infrastructure cheaply, it doesn’t excite trust in the local workforce development, so let’s see how it turns out. Better roads for the tourists? Surely. Will all the locals get into profitable high tech STEM or something?? That is not very realistic. We have to see how this strange strategy turns out, especially when compared, to say Poland or Hungary who prever longer term workers from Ukraine.

  5. Does Romania have some preference as where to source the immigrants from? Are there any policies in place? Because surely part of the immigrants will like to stay in the country and there are nationalities which will integrate better than other.

    I am thinking some people from poor South American countries could find work in Romania interesting while speaking a romance language.

  6. Sounds as likely as afghan governnent joining war on terror or Switzerland going communist. Or USA working on world peace. Or North Korea flooding the food market.
    Romania attracting work force…
    Good luck!

  7. Romania’s transition to Spain 2.0 is nearing completion 😀

    Don’t get me wrong, Romania needs immigrants. But a quota of 100.000 per annum seems a lot (nearly 2% of the size of the active labour market).

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