Romania's transport minister has resigned over controversial comments he made criticising his countrymen living abroad.
Ioan Rus caused uproar by saying that while three million Romanians worked as labourers in Western Europe, at home their children were becoming thugs and their wives prostitutes.
Romania is one of the EU's poorest countries; it's estimated a third of a million children are growing up with one of their parents abroad.
Rus has since apologised saying he wanted to highlight a s…
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