The second meeting of the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee will take place in Chisinau on May 18-19. The meeting will be opened by the Committee’s co-chairmen, MP Mihai Ghimpu and MEP Andi Cristea. The opening will also involve the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Andrei Galbur and the Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola, IPN reports.

According to the legislature’s press service, in the meeting the members of Moldova’s Parliament and the MEPs will exchange opinions on the current cooperation relations between Moldova and the EU, the progress made in implementing the reform agenda and the political events that took place recently in the country. The interlocutors will also discuss the reforms in such areas as justice, corruption fighting, respect for the human rights and fundamental freedoms and public administration, the economic, financial and electoral situation and the situation in the mass media sector.

A separate subject for discussion will be the cooperation between the authorities and civil society in implementing the reform agenda. There will be staged the seminar “Parliamentary control of the European integration process in the Republic of Moldova”. The Committee will adopt a final statement of the second meeting that will contain a series of recommendations addressed to the Moldovan authorities and the European Commission.

According to the program, the European Parliament’s delegation to the EU–Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee will have meetings with Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu, Prime Minister Pavel Filip and Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Galbur.

The EU–Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee meets two times a year, in Brussels and in Chisinau. The first meeting of the Committee was held in Brussels on September 21-22, 2015.