The adoption of the mixed-member electoral system despite the warnings of the EU about the macro-financial assistance reveal, on the one hand, a successful mixture of strategic planning and enormous resources as well as boldness and cold calculation of the risks inside the Democratic Party, politologist Dionis Cenusai says in an opinion article for IPN.
On the other hand, this shows that the conditionality instrument used by the EU is no longer so scaring for the Moldovan government, noted the author.
According to him, the Mogherini-Hahn statement points to the adoption of a serious attitude, but the content of the statement shows no state of alert or major irritation among the EU institutions.
Instead of dramatizing things, the EU decided to adopt a pragmatic position, especially because the macro-financial assistance for Moldova is strictly related to the political preconditions that the government of Moldova for now does not respect.
Delivering a calm message, the EU avoids being involved in public manipulation campaigns used by the Democrats to shift the responsibility for the possible non-provision of assurance onto Brussels, trying thus to indirectly blackmail the EU.
In conclusion, Dionis Cenusa says the conditionality elements should be resuscitated urgently to strengthen the EU’s authority and not to allow feelings of contempt for the EU to be spread in Moldova and the region, in particular in Georgia and Ukraine.
