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Roma children in Romania - the EU state with the highest number of the minority group (Photo: Magne Haagen)

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Children? Only if state permits it, says Romanian mayor

Roma children in Romania - the EU state with the highest number of the minority group (Photo: Magne Haagen)

If you're planning to have children in one Romanian city, you might want to hold fire.

The mayor of the Romanian city of Targu Mures has said in a Facebook post that the state should screen would-be parents for proof of a stable workplace, financial resources, basic education and the legal minimum age required to care for children.

Children born into families that do not fit the criteria should be remov...

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Cristian Gherasim is a freelance journalist contributing to EUobserver, Euronews, EU Reporter, Katoikos, Von Mises Institute, and bne IntelliNews, with a particular focus on European and regional affairs.

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