Growth

It's been a while since I last talked about dreams. My dreams. I Ain't Givin' Up Nothin', as the song says, it's a cool line and yes, I stick to it.

So do the people of Feldru, Transylvania.

An estimated 2m Romanians are employed abroad - about 20 per cent of the working-age population. While some emigrated as soon as they could after the collapse of Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorial regime in 1989, most have gone in the past few years - since the EU granted visa-free travel in 2002. Italy and Spain have been the most popular destination for Romanians, because of similarities in language, culture and climate. As Mr Singeorzan says: "Romanians feel good in these countries."

EU governments worry that Romania's accession will prompt another migration wave. Migration experts are cautious about making firm pronouncements after failing to predict correctly the scale of emigration from the current member states of central Europe, especially the numbers moving to the UK and Ireland. However, Romanian demographers do not foresee any spectacular new outflows. As Mr Ungureanu says: "The vast majority ofpeople who might have gone abroad after accession are already working abroad."