Evenimentul Zilei, 10 August 2010
"How we conquered Spain in ten years", says Evenimentul Zilei, which devotes its front page to the Romanians who "have become the most numerous immigrants in Spain". From the first arrivals harvesting strawberries after the Romanian Revolution of 1989 – there were 11,000 in 1990 – to 800,000 Romanians settled in 2010, the paper traces the history of Romanian immigration in Spain. The newspaper notes, however, that following the crisis, many Romanians have wanted to go home, but they eventually retired due to "bureaucracy" that plagues Romania, preferring even the "laxity" of the Spanish legislation on moonlighting.
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