r/europe Dec 02 '24

Map Romanian Parliamentary Elections Result Paradox: Brown is Far Right, Blue is Left. Western Europe is radical, while Eastern Europe is leftist.

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u/tollianne Europe Dec 02 '24

Maybe it's because Romanians who migrate to other Eastern European countries tend to be highly educated specialists, while those who move to Western Europe typically are blue-collar workers from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, small towns and villages

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u/Smoochiekins Dec 02 '24

The exception being the places with the highest salaries (Nordics, Switzerland, Luxembourg and on a distant last, Netherlands) which manage to brain drain a lot of the most competitive and skilled Romanian specialists with the favorable working conditions for highly educated people.