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With an updated promise of the future entry into the EU, the leaders of France, Germany and Poland visited Moldova on August 27 on the national day of the country. The message of France President Emmanuel Macron, the Chancellor of the German Friedrich Merets and Prime Minister Donald Tusk, President Moldova Moldova, Maya Sandu, was simple: revaluation in the EU.
This meeting is held a month before the parliamentary elections of Moldova, scheduled for September 28.
According to the EU, the election campaign and Moldova elections will be held under the threat of Russian hybrid attacks, as happened in the previous presidential elections, which Maya Sandu won with a handful of votes against her professional topponent.
As a result, the French leader and his colleagues tried to send a message to voters.
“The Propaganda of the Kremlin tells us that Europeans want to extend the war and that the European Union oppresses its peoples. This is a lie. Unlike Russia, the European Union does not threaten anyone and respects the sovereignty of each state of a member, ”he said. The European Union is by no means the Soviet Union. “
Hybrid war and political fluctuations
The President of Moldova condemned the Russian hybrid operation, which included the acquisition of votes, cyber attacks and misinformation during the election campaign.
Sandu’s words about the hybrid war were clearly confirmed by the German chancellor Merz:
“In the preparation of the upcoming parliamentary elections in this country, there is no day without mass hybrid attacks of Russia. The Moldovan Republic is aimed both on the Internet and in autonomous mode. A free open, liberal society is aimed. ”
Moldova officially has 2.6 million residents, some of which have Romanian passports and passports from other EU countries.
Many voters belong to modified dispersion, which is scattered in Western Europe and Russia.
Polls predict the struggle with the chest to the last vote between the pro -European and pro -Russian political forces, the socialist and communist party.
The party of the ruling ex -European action and the Party of Solidarity (PAS) in Moldova has been in power since 2021 and is in danger of losing the upcoming elections.
Moldova, located between Romania and Ukraine, is directly influenced by a geopolitical turmoil caused by an aggressive war in Moscow against Kyiv.
Moscow also controls hypernoteria, East Fields of Moldova (on the border with Ukraine, 200 km from Odessa), which was separated from it after a small large -scale war won by professional forces in 1992.
Moldova claims that the dominance of this lane on the east bank of the Dnester River with the full support of Western countries.
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Emmanuel Macron offered Moldova strong support for joining the European Union. The leader of the French state spoke of “historical possibilities” for Chisinau.
Negotiations on the introduction began in June last year. Nevertheless, the candidacy of Moldova corresponds to the candidacy of Ukraine.
Moldova’s Private leadership repeatedly called for the breakdown of the processes of the integration of Moldova and Ukraine in the EU, fearing that the European prospects of Kyiv would last much longer, given the size of Ukraine and the war with Russia.
Nevertheless, the EU reluctantly provides the process of the quick entry of Chisinaau, fearing that he will send a negative message to Ukraine.
Romanian member of the parliamentation Siegfried Murkhan, head of the Committee on Relations with the Es-Moldavia, is one of the most high-profile supporters of Moldova in Brussels, he said to Euronews in July last year:
“The integration of the Moldovan Republic in the EU will be less effort. The integration of small countries is easier than the integration of larger countries “
“Moldova is a small country, and with our support, it can reach many quantities that are not important for the EU, but they convert Moldova.”
The EU is ready to invest almost 2 billion euros in order to increase the economy of Moldova and reduce its vulnerability to external pressure.
The energy infrastructure of Moldova has undergone a significant transformation since 2022. Currently, it is connected to the European electricity network, and the EU has financed significant updates to its internal distribution systems. Tsitsinau also promised to produce 27% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.
Despite the slides, including a slowdown in Ukraine, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) considers the Modavan economy. When a milestone is changed, more than 50% of Moldovan exports will be sent to the EU in 2024 – the highest percentage in the history of the country.