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Nation failing to win over non-citizens

Oct 29, 2008
By Matt Withers

SPEARHEAD: Paet is one of the two ministers spearheading the move to convice more people to go through the naturalization process.
TALLINN - In the wake of Estonia’s poor progress in naturalizing non-citizens, the Ministers of Foreign and Population Affairs have scheduled the present parliament with a renewed policy for encouraging the adoption of Estonian citizenship. Urve Palo and Urmas Paet, the population and foreign minister respectively, are due to put the new policy before parliament this November. The policy is expected to focus on attracting more people to apply through the existing citizenship program, as the g ...

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