TALLINN - The minister for population Urve Palo, who presented the new integration program this week, announced he planned to keep the number of people who can become Estonian citizens in check.
Under the previous integration program which ran from 2000 to 2007 only 5000 people a year became Estonian citizens out of a population of nearly half a million people who are not ethnically Estonian.
At present Estonia has 115,672 stateless residents who represent 9 percent of the population.
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