The EU enters fatigue over the enlargement process and will face financial constraints owing to the Brexit and the security priorities (illegal migration in the South). That’s why Moldova, as Georgia, should convince Brussels, with plausible evidence, that it deserves the European perspective, similar to the countries of the Western Balkans, political pundit Dionis Cenusa wrote in an analysis article for IPN Agency.

According to the expert, Georgia’s ambition to unilaterally make progress in obtaining a European perspective contrasts with the Moldovan government’s inability to restore its credibility before the EU.

Dionis Cenusa noted that being preoccupied with “arrangements” for the December 2018 legislative elections, the Moldovan authorities do not realize that they would get more popular support if they fully implemented the reforms agreed with the EU and requested by civil society.

Renouncing artificial instruments for promoting the European integration in Moldova, such as the initiative to enshrine the European course in the Constitution, will be an additional proof of the serious commitment to reforms.

Any artificiality to the European agenda distances the country from a clear European perspective.

If not the government then the extraparliamentary opposition is obliged to further fuel the idea of unilaterally promoting a European perspective for Moldova, by Georgia’s example.

Even if Moldova could easily join the European integration processes in the Western Balkans (dimension, proximity, capacity to absorb European legislation, etc.), this is stopped by institutions “captured” by obscure interests, endemic corruption and continuous demolition of the “social contract”, concluded the politologist.