The European Commission approved a €600 million economic recovery plan for a three-year period for the Republic of Moldova. MEP Siegfried Mureșan, of the PNL, who heads the European Parliament’s Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee, said the plan that was announced by the EC today is the best news received by the citizens of the Republic of Moldova from the European Union since the liberalization of the visa regime, IPN reporters.

“This is the only economic package of the kind provided by the European Union to a country of its Eastern neighborhood. The economic recovery plan for the Republic of Moldova wouldn’t have been possible without the very close cooperation between President Maia Sandu and the institutions of the European Union. The money will go first of all to connectivity, which is investments in road, digital, energy infrastructure and then in economic competitiveness and support for small and medium-sized enterprises and the reforms expected by the citizens of the Republic of Moldova in public administration, public sector, justice and the fight against corruption,” says Siegfried Mureșan’s statement.

The European MP said the assistance was announced by the European Commission exactly one week after the working visit he paid to the Republic of Moldova alongside the Cahir of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Andrius Kubilius and Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly Andrzej Halicki.