Romania strives to attach Moldova to Balkan EU train

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Series Details 29.1.10
Publication Date 29/01/2010
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Report of comments made by Romanian President Traian Basescu during a visit to Moldova, January 2010.

In the related feature in Spiegel Online International the writer says that 'Romania's president wants to increase his country's population and is using an odd means to do so. The country is generously bestowing hundreds of thousands of Romanian passports on impoverished Moldovans. They are gratefully accepting the offer from the EU member state and are streaming into Western Europe to work as cheap laborers'.
Source Link Link to Main Source http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/romania-strives-attach-moldova-balkan-eu-train/article-189367
Related Links
Spiegel Online International, 13.7.10: Entering the EU Through the Back Door http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,706338,00.html
ESO: Background information: Moldovan leader presses for language name change http://www.europeansources.info/record/moldovan-leader-presses-for-language-name-change/
Der Spiegel, 15.7.10: Back door to the promised land (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/295311-back-door-promised-land
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