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Romania/Moldova: Romania grants citizenship to 17,000 Moldovans

In 2010 Romania has granted citizenship to 17,000 Moldovans, Romanian President Traian Basescu announced. More than half a million Moldovans work in EU countries, most of them on the black labour market, he admitted.

Read the article by Euroactive