Spanish television TVE broadcasted on Thursday evening, March 5, a story about Romanian immigrants, called “Next stop, Bucharest” (in Spanish, Proxima parada, Bucarest).

A team of the Spanish television came to Romania to do a story on Romanian immigrants who returned to their home country after the economic crisis hit Spain. Once they are back in Romania, they seem to be more interested in politics than before their departure.

The story was broadcasted on the television’s Channel 2, reports local Mediafax.

“It’s been 25 years since the fall of the Ceausescu regime and Romania is still going through a long and difficult political and economic transition. That long transition made Romania one of the countries from where a large number of immigrants emerged, most of them going to other European countries. However, the economic crisis that has affected many of them (Spain and Italy, among others) and has generated a high rate of unemployment that sent some of the immigrants back home earlier than planned,” reads the television’s presentation of the documentary.

Not many Romanians chose to return to their home country, but most of those who did came back with some savings, after years of work, and returned with the hope of establishing a small business and start a new life back home.

The immigrants’ vote was decisive for the election of Romania’s new President Klaus Iohannis, the documentary says.

In February, a British television started broadcasting a series of documentaries about Romanian immigrants in Britain, called The Romanians are Coming. 

Comment: Why I’m NOT ashamed about “The Romanians Are Coming”.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com