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Thu 04 Apr 2009Romania offers fast-track citizenship to quarter of Moldova's population
Romania’s president has offered to fast-track citizenship for up to one million Moldovans, saying Bucharest could not stand by idly as an “iron curtain” descended on its eastern border.
The provocative move, which would effectively give EU citizenship to almost a quarter of the population of Europe’s poorest state, comes following rising tension over contested elections there earlier this month.
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