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ForMin Comanescu: Development cooperation policy has to be reformed; great deal of migration is economic in nature

August 30, 2016

Romanian Foreign Minister Lazar Comanescu said Tuesday that in the long run, a reform of the development cooperation policy has to be devised, because, although the European Union is the most important provider of cooperation development aid, a great deal of the ongoing migration continues to be economic in nature. “A great deal of migration […]

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