The Government funds a pro-Romania campaign in Spain, but Romanian immigrants prepare to return home, since it's more and more difficult to find jobs there. The same Government prepares to suspend the first car registration tax (adopted with a huge, endless scandal), while Romanians have less and less access to credits and financing sources.
The "Hola soy rumano" (Hello, I'm Romanian!) campaign in Spain, financed by the Romanian Government, was launched in September 2008, aiming at fairly reflecting the Romanian reality in the Spanish media. In fact, it tries to prove that Romanian workers contributed to the economic growth of the country and more, Evenimentul Zilei reads.
As paved with good intentions at it is, the campaign seems already obsolete. Due to the recession, an increasing number of EU states will continue to impose restrictions for the Romanians' and Bulgarians' access to the labor market, Ireland being the first to announce that the market liberalization will be postponed at least three years, because of the unemployment rate increase caused by the international crisis. Meanwhile, the European Commission tries to convince the EU states that the restrictions should be annulled, Cotidianul reads.
Same Cotidianul also publishes a report on the situation of Romanians in Spain. There are, at this moment, some 716,000 Romanians legally working in Spain, the fastest growing minority in the past years. The number of Romanians increased 41.5% in 2008 alone, surpassing the number of Morocco immigrants, traditionally the largest community in Spain.
Back home: Romania may receive money from the European Reconstruction and Development Bank (ERDB). The institution intends to put up a regional investments funds in order to support private companies in the Central and South-Eastern Europe, including Romania. The fund will al
