It is obvious that the political battle in the coming year will be extremely difficult and the Communist Party could resort to the most inadmissible fight methods. At the same time, everybody understands that 2008 will be the last year during which a Communist party will govern in Europe, the vice president of the Democratic Party Oleg Serebrian said in his speech at the last sitting of the Parliament’s autumn-winter session, Info-Prim Neo reports. 2007 was one more year of decline in all the areas and this downward tendency became more prominent when the Communists came to power seven years ago, he said. Serebrian said that the rate of inflation in Moldova in 2007 exceeded 13% and this is one of the worst indexes in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe. The foreign direct investment per capita in Moldova is only 116 USD. By this indicator, Moldova ranks the last in Europe. According to Serebrian, no results were achieved in the Transnistria dispute settlement. Even if the Communists made optimistic statements, especially President Vladimir Voronin, the negotiating process remains frozen, the MP said. The foreign policy sector was a disaster this year, Serebrian said. The relations with Romania became the worst ever. The relations with Ukraine also worsened. Despite Voronin’s shameful attempts to “pacify” Moscow, the relations with Russia have not improved. The Republic of Moldova lags behinds in fulfilling the EU-Moldova Individual Action Plan and the Moldova-NATO Individual Partnership Action Plan. Many of the Washington officials who in April 2005 were sure that Moldova follows a democratic reform path are now disappointed. Yet, 2007 saw encouraging signs, Serebrian said. Among the achievements, he mentioned the victory of the Democrats in the June 3 local elections, including in Chisinau, which is a clear sign that the Communist party loses ground and that the people want and expect changes; the success of the Democratic political organisations in forming majority groups in the largest part of the district councils. The end of this political year was marked by important fusion projects that involved important centre and centre-left political parties, Oleg Serebrian said.