Brussels, 05/03/2007 (Agence Europe) - Romania's government wants to simplify Romanian citizenship application procedures for people from neighbouring Moldova, thereby allowing thousands of inhabitants of the former Soviet republic of Moldova to join the EU.
Under a 1991 law, Moldovans can apply for Romanian citizenship if they can prove that either they themselves or their parents were born in areas of Moldova that once belonged to Romania. Several thousands of Moldovans opted to become...