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Old 31-08-2006, 10:00 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Default Moldovans to use £500 Bulgarian passports to enter UK

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Originally Posted by John Page
The Express reports that economic crisis in Moldova is driving hundreds of thousands of migrants into Europe and Britain. The country is officially Europe’s poorest country, with 80% of the population living on less than £1 per day. According to a UN report, nine out of ten young Moldovans plan to leave the country, and an estimated 800,000 citizens – 20% of the population – are already living abroad.
The Telegraph reported a couple of weeks ago that Moldovans and other people from non-EU nations in that region are allegedly buying £500 Bulgarian passports as a way of trying to get into the UK via Bulgaria (when the nation enters the EU in 2007).
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