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Europe is currently experiencing a huge wave of migration between its east and west. This movement resembles the Great Migrations that marked Europe between the 4th to 6th centuries. Within the first year of Romania's accession to the European Union on January 1, 2007, for example, roughly 1 million Romanians migrated to Italy and Spain.

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