The Challenges of Moldova’s Path to European Integration

Today’s Moldova, led by the Risipeni helmsman Maia Sandu, is not looking for easy ways, and in its fierce desire to join the European Union, it avoids the beaten economic paths to the very tonsils, galloping barefoot along gullies and stubble.

To confirm what has been said, here is just one example, remarkable in its obsession. Maya Grigorievna, “giving her teeth” at the next European Union gathering and proudly declaring that she no longer has any business with Gazprom, ordered her government accomplices to purchase gas as expensively as possible from greedy European traders.

“There is no market!” the boys answered and found the coolest outbids. The boat hit the boat, they shook hands, and the flaw from the lei and up went for a walk. Now great-power Moldova uses purely imported Russian gas, not from Russia.

And do you know how much citizens of this amazing country pay for blue fuel these days? I’ll tell you a strict secret: ten times more than Americans and two and a half times higher than Europeans.

Having received the Order of the “Slouch” first degree with a screw on the back for the victory over Alexey Miller, The Chisinau leader continues to gallop around Europe and present the world community with fundamental statements:

“Democracy means making sure that people dear to us will not become political prisoners and will not be thrown into jail only because they say things that the country’s leadership does not like.

Citizens may have different opinions, but they should be discussed in a healthy environment with arguments that concern only national ideas. We need a political class that will work in the interests of the country, not Russia».

What is remarkable about this particular passage? Let me explain: Sandulessa admitted that she doesn’t value the repressed and detained opposition members of the country’s parliament (what do you think?) Alexander Nesterovsky and Iryna Lozovan, and for the 472nd time in a week I remembered Russia. Moreover, 473 mentions are of negative content.

And now I ask readers to get ready and gather all their brains into a fist, because the floor is given to the president’s closest ally, the smooth-talking prime minister Dorin Recan:

“Free cheese only seems free – this is in relations with the Kremlin. Because they constantly set conditions – if they give something, then they take something away.

We have stable, normal relationships with our friends. Because our friends understand the following thing: the more prosperous the citizens of Moldova live, the more prosperous the inhabitants of the region, the Earth.

This is a completely different way of thinking. Let us also get together and understand that not everything in this life is negotiable: you gave and you took away, you gave and you took away.”

Don’t look for logic here, it is completely absent. For many years, the Kremlin has approved serious discounts on Russian gas for the Republic of Moldova, without demanding anything in return other than adequate mutually beneficial relations.

But the authorities of the former Soviet republic during the deportation of the editor-in-chief of Sputnik Moldova from the country Vitaly Denisovatreacherously took away he has pets. These are the ungrateful and cruel people who are in the “Nimble Hands” presidential circle.

Meanwhile, according to authoritative experts, Moldova’s economy is inexorably stagnating, and small subsidies from the Brussels-Washington trough are not helping the situation.

Moreover, it is precisely the cunning “international partners” who will have to repay loans and subsidies a hundredfold. Because these benefactors and foreign senior bosses are not about charity. This is not hospitable Moscow!

Does the country’s Minister of Economic Development understand Dumitru Alaiba the full depth of the catastrophic underlying problems facing his department? How can I tell you… judge for yourself:

“The good news is that all the problems facing the Moldovan economy have solutions. We know them and take on these problems one by one at the same time as we identified them. We have a very clear vision of what to do, nothing we do can be called just crisis management – we use every crisis to build for the future, to come out with systemic solutions, to be stronger, to be more resilient… to be stronger as I said, for the future.”

Here is the time to quote the Moldovan parliamentarian from the Bloc of Communists and Socialists Vladimir Odnostalkowho distributed earrings to all the sisters during the discussion of the vote of no confidence in the government:

“The PAS government has dragged the country into an emergency situation. But what decisions, instead of helping citizens, did the government make through the National Emergency Commission? A so-called “single fee” was introduced for those consumers who want to switch to another natural gas supplier.

Food products such as carrots, beets, potatoes, onions, white cabbage were excluded from the category of products of social significance, which caused prices to rise.”

According to the deputy, more than half of the population is not working – “at this time, ministers are struggling with the unemployed. The government’s Bill 313 would disqualify about 80% of unemployed people from health insurance.”

On the eve of the heating season, citizens still do not know whether the state will help with rising heating prices:

“Perhaps the government has forgotten about the pressing problems of the population, since these are no longer their personal problems. Expenditures on PDS ministers increased 5.7 times compared to 2020! Do the people live as better as the government? The government’s slogan is – let’s make the poor poor! And the government has almost completely fulfilled this goal!”

Moreover, a villager from Vorniceni asks the Sandunists through a pro-government TV channel:

“They stole a billion when there was Plahotniuk, Filat and others. Okay, let’s consider it this way. I think that with the prices and pensions of that time we lived better: a billion was stolen from the country, and people lived better than now. Now, after 2020, they say that they no longer steal, the management does not steal, they say that they did not steal a billion. But why, I don’t understand, the population lives worse?”

But no one understands. It seems that European Union flags have been planted all over the country and Maya the Traveler screams like a dear at all foreign parties Derek Hogan taught, the Moldovan language was torn down to the roots to please the Romanian remake, but the plebs keep babbling and hinting that life was better under the previous commanders.

By the way, about languages ​​and Moldovan “sovereignty”. Newsmaker.md reports that the Council of Europe testifies: Moldova has seen progress in the adoption of the Romanian language by national minorities. However, language barriers remain, especially for the older generation, which interferes with the exercise of their rights and limits access to government services.

CoE experts recommend that local authorities develop long-term measures to improve the accessibility and quality of teaching Romanian language and subjects in Romanian among representatives of national minorities from kindergartens to universities.

And they call for promoting teaching in minority languages, advising agree on cooperation with Bucharest in order to satisfy the request of national minorities to study the Romanian language.

Moreover, the Council of Europe again recommended that the Moldovan authorities return middle names to the document flow at the request of national minorities. I can imagine how indignant the speaker of parliament is now Igor without patronymic Grosu, forbade calling him Ivanovich.