Romanians to return home to work in the new Mercedes plant

In recent years, two million men and women left their homeland of Romania to settle in other places.

When the economic slowdown began to hit Western Europe, the Romanian Government felt able to exploit the situation to recover several thousand workers.

In recent years, two million men and women left their homeland of Romania to settle in other places. Many went to the United States and Canada, but mainly to Europe. Spain and Italy have been two great promised lands.

This was a huge relief for the country that could benefit from large remittances transferred by migrants to their families at home.

But since the entry of Romania into the European Union, things have changed. Romania increased its GDP by 2008 at a fee, not yet final today, between 8 and 9%. Maybe 2009 would be a little weaker, but significant

investments in the European Union and foreign private capital could not be paralyzed by the lack of manpower. Unemployment in Romania was in 2008 approximately 3.5% in the rich Timisoara province which is the

capital, and is now under 2%.

For example, when Mercedes announced in the summer of 2008, the installation of its new plant in Hungary, many local entrepreneurs in Timsoara were happy with this decision. "There are skilled workers. It cost a

lot to find candidates to fill the staffing requirements and to respond to the growth of our demand. This lead us to having to offer ever-higher wages.

Thus, the Romanian government started a campaign abroad with the aim of achieving the return of a maximum number of workers, usually well-educated for the many projects that were under way . In Spain there were

organized meetings in various provinces (Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona), but the result was poor. Very few were interested, and even fewer have left. Spain, with its 700,000 Romanian immigrants, has a large portion of

these skilled workers, however a vast majority have refused the offer. Many already have employment and have bought their own homes, have children settled in schools etc.



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