The number of Spanish nationals moving abroad rose last year to its highest level since comparable figures were first compiled in 2008, the National Statistics Institute said Thursday. Many traveled to Britain, where they now face an uncertain future following last week’s decision by British voters to leave the European Union.
Almost 100,000 of the country’s citizens left in 2015, with one in eight moving to Britain, 10 percent to France, 9.6 percent to Germany and 9.3 percent to the United States.
Britons last week voted to leave the European Union after “Brexit” campaigners said freedom-of-movement laws in the bloc had allowed …read more
Source: Voice of America
