A man named Vladimir is about to acquire a Romanian passport and with it, the right to work within the EU.
His grandparents, according to his invented ancestry, were citizens of Romania in the first half of the twentieth century, long before it joined the EU.
They lost their nationality at the end of the Second World War, when Romania ceded the territory of Moldova to Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Today, Vladimir is entitled by law to acquire the citizenship that was taken from h...
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