Foreigners in Romania

I just got an e-mail with an announcement from Romanian Immigration Office. It contains some data about the foreigners living in Romania.

There are only 64789 registered foreigners living in Romania.

Out of them, only 17619 are from EU countries, and 47170 are from non-EU countries.

Out of the EU citizens living in Romania 4366 are Italian, 3268 German and 2298 French.

Most of the foreigners living in Romania are from Moldova (13820), Turkey (8011) and China (5545).

The highest number of foreigners is found in Bucharest, Iasi, Cluj, Timis and Ilfov counties.

The most common purpose of their residence in Romania is because they are married to Romanian citizens (13086 cases) and because they are studying in Romania (12820 cases).

Out of this data it seems that still Romania is not a very attractive destination for foreign people.  65.000 is a very small number compared to the population of Romania. I am sure that the Baltic countries have more foreigners living there even if their population is 10 times smaller than Romania.

And the main reason to worry, as I see it, is that people that come to Romania to study do not continue to work in Romania. This is a very big loss. After investing time and money in their education, Romania should to everything possible to keep the best graduates. But after all, there are Romanians that leave the country after graduation, so why should be different for the foreigners who study here?