The complete opening of the European labor market for Romanian and Bulgarian workers on January 1, 2014 didn’t lead, as some feared, to an invasion of low-skilled workers towards the continent’s developed countries.
In Romania, the removal of the last restrictions imposed by 9 EU Member States, including France, the UK and Germany, has nearly gone unnoticed. In this country of 20 million inhabitants located at the edge of Europe, the West isn’t the dream it used to be in 2007, when the country joined. With growth exceeding 2 percent in 2013 and similar prospects for 2014, Bucharest is rather looking at its own future with thirst. “Romania’s unemployment rate is 7 percent, while the European average is 1
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