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ROCCA DE ‘GIORGI, Italy – Their hands were slightly visible, so they temporarily squeezed the pruner before dropping the bunches of grapes into red plastic containers. Some distance behind her, in the next row, successive Italian scholars due to a manpower shortage caused by a pandemic tried unsuccessfully to compensate her. Famous in Romania for her wine, Alexandra Ichim had never painted in the vineyards before moving to Italy. Lombardy region for the September harvest, known in Italian as vendemmia: wages are too low in Romania and operating situations too harsh, he says. For the Italian paintings, the 20-year-old traveled 12 hours by bus and flew back to her home in the town of Arad when the harvest was over. The seasonal Eastern European staff, led by Romanians, are seen as a must-have for obtaining food. the table across the continent. Her willingness to work hard on dubious tasks in exchange for low wages is sought abroad and her source of income is inconsistent with domestic demand. At a time when traveling for paintings is considered detrimental to everyone, they are among the world’s last normal border personnel. Unlike the farms that disagree with its lack, there are no subsidies from the European Union or special coverage in case of illness: around one in five Romanians paints abroad. In Italy, 1. 2 million of them have established their residence and thousands more come and go through temporary tasks. France and Spain are not far behind as painting destinations. And when the coronavirus hit, around a million people from all over Europe returned to Romania, ignoring the Romanian president’s request to stay and avoid bringing the virus that was already raging in Western Europe. For many, it was the longest welcome party of their adult lives: staff can earn around 1,200 euros, which is equivalent to 8 hours a day during Vendemmia in Italy, compared to 700 euros for a 10-hour month . consistent with the day in Romania. From time to time in Lombardy with her mother since 2006 and she speaks impeccable Italian. She was in Romania with her father when the coronavirus outbreak first hit Italy this year, at a steering wheel factory, which she then sent home during the virus shutdown in Romania. She left to enroll in her mother’s name as soon as the borders reopened. At the time, Romania’s infection rate was low and no quarantine was required, however, within weeks, a 14-day quarantine was required in Italy for travelers from Romania and Bulgaria. The province of Trento allowed the status quo of farms and vineyards. “Work Quarantines” where masked seasonal staff can paint outdoors in their own groups and remain on site. “A company cannot remain a stranger for 14 days without putting them to paint. This is a clearly unsustainable cost, ”said Roberto Caponi, from the Italian agricultural confederation. The fruit itself cannot wait either, as Ottavia Gorgi di Vistarino knows well. Her family’s land extends over 4 slopes in Rocca de ’Giorgi, a small town about 60 kilometers south of Milan. The harvest begins with Pino Nero for Spumante, then comes Chardonnay and Pinot Grigio, followed by more Pino Nero for red wine, Chem joined a team for the first harvest of Pino Nero in mid-September, crossing the cone-shaped bunches at an impressive rate. The full-time cellar foreman, Christian Florisan, is also Romanian from the Arad region, as are many of the men who paint the presses. “Corona has brought agriculture to its knees more than any other. Everywhere, at home in Romania and here in Italy, we are struggling to find other people, ”said Florisan, who has lived in Italy for 14 years. “They do not come because they are afraid of COVID, and they are afraid of having to do two weeks of quarantine and when they get home their wallet will be emptier than before. ” He estimated that more than a part of his staff are Romanians, however, the figures are down 25% this year. Across the country, the wineries have 36,000 employees, which means that not all culmination will be harvested on time and many will remain in the house, without pay. Everyone who came here from Romania has low-pass medical exams, Florisan said, but said not everyone has a nasal swab. Up to one million seasonal personnel cross EU borders each year, in accordance with the rules set in July through the European Commission. When the virus was first unleashed, the Romanian president asked citizens not to return their paintings abroad, but was largely ignored by those who wanted or sought to return home for what promised ‘to be weeks of isolation’ . Back in Romania, suspicious neighbors asked the passing government to report backward cases from Italy, Spain or France. Romania’s first case of the coronavirus was traced to Lombardy, the northern Italian region that has suffered the first devastating wave of deaths in Europe. according to Gabriel Hancean, a sociologist who led a team of researchers that tracked the country’s earliest infections. It is now Eastern Europe where the virus is reaching unprecedented levels, with Romania suffering the highest weekly death rate on the continent after Spain. Hancean said few people now seem to care about travelers from other parts of Europe, Romanian or not. the virus, and it doesn’t matter who enters the country or not, ”he said. Ichim and her boyfriend, Dennis Sirca, were already making plans for the vacation back to Arad, doubting if they would be quarantined there. In reality, neither of them cared, since they earned two to three times more during the harvest than they could have earned on their “real” tasks. “In Romania, we don’t earn cash, we can’t earn money by running, so we came here to harvest,” he said. Back in Romania, his factory task has evaporated and there are no prospects for paintings in sight, Ishim has no plans to harvest there, although the farms face a shortage of hard work. – paintings similar to those of their western European counterparts. What they lack is the flexibility of their own passing government, said Carmen Avram, a Romanian member of the European Parliament who has been an advocate. Even with the border closures last spring, we learned in Western Europe that without them there would not be enough people to bring fruits and vegetables or paintings to slaughterhouses. The rules approving the move in Europe melted German and British corporations leased planes for Romanian personnel. Avram said that the Romanian passing government had never presented such a possibility for farms and factories at home, or in cash. She described last spring as a “We can start from the beginning and have them here, and make this country prosper,” she said. “But we lost this moment. It is a national tragedy. »___ Trisha Thomas contributed. Lori Hinnant, The Associated Press
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