Deputy FM Gerontopoulos visits Moldova

Hellenic MFA, Friday, 24 October 2014:

 

Deputy Foreign Minister Kyriakos Gerontopoulos visited Moldova on Thursday, 23 October. He met in the capital, Chisinau, with Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and European Integration Iulian Groza, with whom he discussed Greek-Moldovan bilateral relations, developments in the wider region, and issues concerning Moldova’s European perspective. Mr. Groza expressed his government’s gratitude to Greece, during whose EU Presidency, in the first half of 2014, the Schengen visa requirement was waived for Moldovan citizens.

Protesters in Chisinau denounce US interference in Moldovan affairs

“Washington is blindly pushing Moldova into the EU, which endangers traditional ties of the republic in the east,” the moldovan opposition patry leader says...

The Moldovan opposition Party of Socialists picketed on Wednesday the US Embassy in Chisinau, accusing Washington of putting pressure on Chisinau pushing it towards an association agreement with the European Union and towards breaking traditional ties in the east.

Separatist Moldovan region mulls joining Russia

Officials in the separatist Moldovan region of Trans-Dniester have asked Moscow to consider allowing the territory to follow Crimea's example and become part of Russia, the Russian-based ITAR-Tass News Agency reported Tuesday.
The agency said that government bodies in the separatist region had appealed to Russia’s State Duma, the lower house of the Russian legislature, to add a clause to Russian legislation that might offer Trans-Dniester the possibility of accession to Russia. 
At the same time, the unian.info website, based in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, reported that another region of Moldova, Gagauziya, located in the south of the country, had taken steps to create its own army to "defend itself" against the actions of Chisinau, the Moldovan capital. 

Moldovan parliament bans local referendums on issues of state importance

Ninety-eight percent of people who took part in the Gagauz referendum in February voted for Gagauzia’s accession to the Customs Union.

Deputies of Moldovan parliament have banned local referendums on issues of state importance after the Gagauz Autonomy, a territory in southern Moldova, voted against the central government’s course towards European integration at a plebiscite in February. The deputies voted for amendments to the Code on Elections, which clearly divided the powers between the central and local authorities, at a meeting on Thursday. The ban concerns foreign and internal policy issues, taxation and other problems in Chisinau’s competence, the document says.

Le peuple Gagaouze n’est pas contre l’Europe. -95% des votants ayant soutenu une intégration dans l'Union douanière avec la Russie (un choix erroné)

Tel est le résultat de la visite officielle, ce 20 février, de Henri Malosse, Président du Comité économique et social, accompagné de l'Ambassadeur de l'UE en Moldavie, Pikka Tapiola, a Comrat, capitale de la Gagaouzie, une région autonome de la Moldavie.
Cette visite avait été organisée suite au référendum récent du 2 février en Gagaouzie, 95% des votants ayant soutenu une intégration dans l'Union douanière avec la Russie.
Le président du CESE a constaté que la question posée dans ce référendum présentait un choix erroné car la perspective européenne est une question de valeurs et non pas de choisir entre Bruxelles et Moscou. A cet égard, Henri Malosse a exprime son souhait que l’accord d’association ouvre une perspective claire d’intégration a l’Union européenne pour la Moldavie.