The Turks form the largest foreign group in Berlin, as well as in Germany as a whole. But there are many other foreign communities in the capital; Arabs, citizens of the Maghreb, Italians, Africans, and people from southeast Asia, who, like the Turks, arrived as seasonal workers and then simply stayed on. This, however, is not the end of the story. “In recent years a new group of citizens coming from E.U. countries, among them many Italians and Spaniards, unable to find jobs in their own countries, have settled here in the capital’s most fashionable districts, such as Prenzlauer Berg or Mitte,” says journalist Pierluigi Mennitti.