German politicians insisted from the Romanian authorities to stop cooperation with European passports, according to the printed edition of Die Welt. For example, criticizing Romania made by the government of Bavaria and Saxony.

The interior Minister of Bavaria Joachim Herrmann stressed that Romania must do more to keep track of which the European documents it issues Moldavian masters. According to him, in another development, the EU will be faced with a sudden increase in unemployment and poverty due to the influx of poor immigrants. His Bavarian colleague has supported also the Minister of the interior of Saxony Marcus Ulbig.

Officially receive the Romanian citizenship may take more than 2 years. But in consequence of the corruption of local officials actually foreigners can buy a passport for 100 euros. For fast operation of consideration of the request will have to give a bribe to one and a half thousand euros.

In addition, in Romania there are simpler ways of obtaining citizenship. Namely, Romanian passport can find any resident of another country, from among the ancestors of which up to the third generation were Romanians. Since Moldova until 1940 partially was part of Romania, many Moldovans you can find ancestors with Romanian passport.

For 2011 and 2012 Romanian authorities have granted citizenship to about 152 thousand foreigners are not from an EU state. Most of them were inhabitants of Moldavia. The fact that Romania in 2007 joined the EU, now Moldovans with Romanian passports can easily move around the European Union and to look for a job there.

In Germany fear that when the focus will not change, a significant part of Moldovan natives (in Moldova there are about 3.5 million people) will get into the EU. According to the authorities of Romania, at the moment before them dwells 700-800 thousand applications for citizenship. However, not specified, how many among them are natives of Moldova.
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