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Interior of Romanian Orthodox church in Lucca. In the years 2011 and 2012 the ISTAT made a survey regarding the religious affiliation among the immigrants in Italy, the religion of the Romanian people in Italy were as follows: [25] Orthodox Christians: 79.0%; Catholics: 13.9%; Protestants: 2.2%; Muslims: 0.1%; Non religious: 2.7%; Other ...
Italy is the most common destination for Romanian emigrants, with over one million Romanians living there.. In 2006, the Romanian diaspora was estimated at 8 million people by then President of Romania, Traian Băsescu, most of them living in the former USSR, Western Europe (esp. Italy, Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Austria), North America (Canada and the United States), South ...
According to a May 2008 poll, 68% of Italians wanted to see all of the country's approximately 150,000 Romanis, many of whom were Italian citizens, expelled. [5] The survey, published as mobs in Naples burned down Romani camps that month, revealed that the majority also wanted all Romani camps in Italy to be demolished.
There is a sizable Romani minority in Romania, known as Ţigani in Romanian and, recently, as Rromi, of 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population (2011 census), although the Council of Europe estimates the figure to be 1.85 million people or 8.32% of the population. [127]
As migration and asylum policies are exclusive responsibilities of each member State, the increased migration pressure at the EU Southern border sparked tensions between EU States on how to differentiate between people migrating due to economic reasons, which in principle are regarded as unlawful immigrants and thus are forced to leave or ...
Italy: 1,206,938 migrants from Romania, of all ethnic groups [5] Germany: 909,795-1,100,000 (2023) migrants from Romania of all ethnic groups, including a wide range of Romanian Germans as well [6] [7] [8] Spain: 630,795 Romanian citizens (2023) [9]-1,079,726 [10] including naturalized and second and third generation Romanians (2022) [11 ...
The accession of Romania to the European Union in 2007 led many members of the Romani minority, the most socially disadvantaged ethnic group in Romania, to migrate en masse to various Western European countries (mostly to Spain, Italy, Austria, Germany, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Sweden) hoping to find a better life.
By mid-2020, there were 80,000 persons born in Italy living in Romania. [6] Italians in Romania represent the second largest immigrant group in Romania, after Moldovans in Romania. [7] Among immigrants in Romania, in 2021, the most common countries of birth were Republic of Moldova (40%), Italy (11%) and Spain (9%). [8]