Almost one fourth of the Moldovans consider that 2013 was the year of economic recovery and return to normality. Good results were achieved in agriculture, large road sections were repaired, while remittances increased.

Within a sociological study made by the Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova, the respondents were asked to name the most important events of 2013.

According to the study results, furnished by the Association to IPN, each fifth respondent considers that the coming closer to the EU, including the dialogue with the European institutions, visits by high-ranking European officials to Moldova, and the initialing of the Association Agreement with the EU at the Vilnius Eastern Partnership Summit, is the most important event of the year.

Each sixth respondent (16%) believes that the protests mounted by the Communist opposition against the government and the steps taken to join the Russia-Belarus-Kazakhstan Customs Union are among the most important events. The pro-European demonstrations staged in the Independence Square in Kiev are considered important by 13% of those questioned, while 6% said the year was marked by interminable disputes and violence in Parliament.

1% of those polled enumerated among the important events the efforts made to combat corruption, reform the justice sector, increase the pays of judges and reform the education system.

The sociological study “Year 2013 in the opinion of Moldova’s population” was carried out between December 16 and 25 on a sample of 1,200 respondents from 75 settlements, except the Transnistrian region. The margin of sampling error is 3%.