"Small" amount of Bulgarians, Romanians immigrants: Stats. office

According to Statistics Netherlands, the number of Bulgarians and Romanians who have come to the Netherlands to work since the need for a permit was abolished on January 1st last year, is very small when compared to the many thousands of Poles who come to the country every year. On July 1st last year there were 3.9 thousand Bulgarian in the Netherlands. At the end of 2013 there were about 1.6 thousand. Most new Bulgarian workers have not registered in the municipal population administration. The therefore likely remain in the Netherlands only briefly. The number of Romanian workers doubled in the first half of 2014 to more than 6 thousand. They are also often not registered in the municipal population administration and likely stay in the country only briefly. The number of Poles coming to the Netherlands to work is much larger. In the first half of 2014 the number of Polish workers increased by more than 20 thousand to 145.6 thousand on July 1st last yer. About 30 percent of these workers are registered.