Romanian-Italians

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Italian citizens of Romanian origin, residing in Italy as emigrants or born there to Romanian parents, are a notable presence mostly after 1999, when a very large wave of emigration known in Romania as Fenomenul către UE from Romania took the road to Western Europe (with 80% of the immigrants going to Spain or Italy), and also after 2002, when Romanian citizens obtained the right to leave their country and go to any Schengen Zone country without having a visa requirement. As of 2005, 1,061,400 [1] Romanians are living inside Italy's borders.