Romania, Bulgaria (and soon likely Ukraine) are the Mexico of the EU. It's actually beneficial to the workers - 6 months at basically ~1500 Euros saved per mon

Romania, Bulgaria (and soon likely Ukraine) are the Mexico of the EU. It's actually beneficial to the workers - 6 months at basically ~1500 Euros saved per month = 9000 Euros. 5-10 years of these "deployments" and you buy a nice house. But yeah, there's plenty of labour to feed smarter countries' industrial machines. I say "smarter" because the governments of RO/BG are absolute shite at improving conditions for startups/small business - you know, the things that become big business and bring in money, keep workers, etc given the chance and time. DE/NL/SE/etc know how countries become "developed".