No intervention in the Constitution or forcing of the public to like the EU will produce positive effects for sustainably advancing the European integration, politologist Dionis Cenusa says in an analysis article for IPN Agency.
According to the political pundit, the citizens should be converted into the European ideas by voluntary ways, preferably by testing some of the direct benefits of the rapprochement with the EU.
Some of the gradual positive changes already take place in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia, but fewer changes are yet witnessed in the separatist region, owing to the absence of a clear country reunification perspective, for the benefit of democratic processes.
Dionis Cenusa noted that Moldova is powerfully affected by geopolitical divisions, which divide society and even the country’s geography. Consequently, it is hard to see an all-inclusive European perspective.
The Gagauz minority and the population of the Transnistrian region, which are powerfully associated with Russian integrationist processes, total about 500,000 persons. That’s why, in the conditions of depopulation of the country, which now has fewer than 3 million citizens, the perception of the people with pro-Russian views mad, respectively, moderate or skeptical views of the EU will count more and more.
In 2004-2005, the Party of Communists and Vladimir Voronin could be attracted to the European synergy, even if these had clear pro-Russian views.
It would be harder to implement a similar scenario with the Party of Socialists and Igor Dodon because the EU’s attention is dispersed. In the European neighborhood, there are a series of crises (Russia’s interference in Ukraine, war in Siberia, illegal migration, etc.), while Russia is powerfully interested in remodeling the Moldovan political class with the help of pro-Russian forces.
It is practically impossible to ensure a European perspective without ensuring wider unity in society. In this regard, there should be a unified position among most of the political parties, concluded the expert.
