Prime Minister Pavel Filip considers President Igor Dodon’s reaction following the Eastern Partnership Summit is disappointing and populist. “Mister Dodon has been lately more on trips to Russia and the Eastern Partnership Summit from there is probably regarded in a fully different way or namely the success of this event made him feel obliged to make manipulating statements so as to reduce its positive impact,” the Premier said in a posting on a social networking site, to which IPN makes reference.

Pavel Filip noted that if President Dodon really wants to do something good for the Republic of Moldova, he should first stop denigrating his own country and the desperate attempts to create an artificial conflict between the Republic of Moldova and its partners, either it is about the EU, the U.S. or the Russian Federation or other partners. His political career is grounded strictly on geopolitics, but Moldova’s future is based on our European modernization project that is supported by most of the citizens.

In a statement, President Igor Dodon said the Eastern Partnership Summit confirmed that the case of the Republic of Moldova is in the lowest drawer of Europe’s preoccupations and this also confirmed the illusory character of the European integration. According to President Dodon, the Europeans’ disappointment in Chisinau is constant and Moldova’s chances to integrate into the EU are almost equal to zero for the next decades.