Euro MP Maria Petre: “In Moldova’s progress, the most delicate area is related to political criteria”

Europarliamentarian Maria Petre, a member of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Moldova, considers the most sensitive area in the country’s progresses is the one related to political criteria. The appreciation is made in a commentary the Europarliamentarian has sent to Info-Prim Neo. The analysis refers to the Report on Moldova and its progresses in the areas envisaged by the EU-Moldova Action Plan. The report was made public these days by the European Commission. “As a Europarliamentarian elected in Romania, a member of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Moldova, I welcome the objective manner of editing the report, but I can’t help remarking the terms, sometimes extremely diplomatic, in wording the stage conclusions,” she points out. The commentary analyzes a sentence from Chapter 1 of the Report, considered relevant, and namely "The report is not a general analysis of Moldova’s economic and political situations." Thus, the progresses are assessed as "good" in most areas, but "the efficient implementation" of reform “remains a desideratum" in the judicial reform; fight against corruption; insuring media’s freedom; improving the business’s and investment’s climate. “The used terms remind me of the country reports made as to Romania in the beginning, but also of the discussions our delegation had with top representatives of the Moldovan politics both in Brussels and especially in Chisinau. I told a reunion in Chisinau in May 2007 the most sensitive area is the one related to the political criteria and here the report is blunt enough in wording flaws,” says the Europarliamentarian. Maria Petre also says she is convinced Romania’s experience on the European path can be extremely useful for Moldova, and the new Chisinau Government “should finally notice this stretched hand.” According to the European parliamentarian, the Romanian experience has clearly demonstrated transposing the community acquis as a volume counted less. What mattered was the administration’s ability to create mechanisms to apply laws and it proved the European friends are of much use. “Romanians in general and we, the ones in the European Parliament, are Moldova’s true friends. It has only to use them,” reads Maria Petre’s commentary.