The IOM in its survey on migration potentials in Central and Eastern Europe put Slovenia in the group of countries with a very small number of potential migrants. Most other candidate countries were put in the group with a big number of potential migrants or in the group of countries where a tendency towards short-term migrations is obvious. Slovenia ranks just above the average when it comes to experts. A survey made in mid-1990s showed that 5 percent of Slovenes with MA or doctorate were thinking about going abroad, which is much more than in other candidate countries, little for the EU and a lot for Slovenia. In the end of last year 315 citizens from the EU worked in Slovenia.
Most Slovene citizens live in Germany.
According to a German survey made earlier this year, the figure will be 18,600 in 2002, which means 2 percent of all foreigners from the ten Central and Eastern European candidate countries in Germany. The figure is negligible compared to a mass of 220,000 people who are expected to move to Germany every year after the free movement of persons is implemented. The report, however, stresses that all fears of massive immigration are groundless. The volume of daily migrations is, according to the latest surveys, small, too. Such daily trans-border migrations are favourable for all three countries.