





New trend in Italy: arranged weddings between Romanian women and non-EU citizens
The peak came when four such weddings were celebrated at the Milan city hall in one day - after similar events in the day before and the one before that. All involved Romanian women as future wives of non-EU grooms, and everything was perfectly legal.
But according to the source suspicion arose that the real purpose of such unions was that of non-EU citizens to obtain the status of European citizens following Romania's accession in the EU in 2007.
All grooms and wives knew each other before the ceremonies, but some men showed up accompanied by translators because they could not communicate with their future wives in the same language, according to sources quoted by the newspaper.