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Victor Ponta - Prime Minister of Romania

Interviews with newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. Zeinab Badawi talks to Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta, who is on a mission to restore his country's image.

At the end of 2013, Romanians will be able to live and work in any EU country they want to. All work restrictions, imposed by some countries when Romania and Bulgaria joined the union six years ago, will be lifted. There were worries then that workers from those two impoverished European states would flock to richer nations, and such concerns have not gone away. Zeinab Badawi speaks to Romania's Prime Minister Victor Ponta. He's on a mission to restore his country's image. Can he succeed?

(Image: Prime Minister of Romania Victor Ponta. Credit: AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

23 minutes

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  • Wed 20 Mar 201309:05GMT
  • Wed 20 Mar 201313:05GMT
  • Wed 20 Mar 201316:05GMT
  • Wed 20 Mar 201320:05GMT
  • Thu 21 Mar 201302:05GMT

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