The initiative group of the European People’s Party of Moldova (PPEM) expresses its concern about the EU Delegation’s announcement that the financial assistance that was to be provided to Moldova this year was frozen. “It is for the first time after 2009 that our country is in such an embarrassing situation, which reveals the disastrous way of government after the formation of the PLDM-PD-PCRM parliamentary coalition,” reads the PPEM’s statement, quoted by IPN.
The members of the initiative group say that owing to the disastrous government in the last five months, things developed as it was anticipated: with no reforms done, including in the justice sector; with no progress made in investigating the bank fraud; the inexistence of a plan for remedying the situation in the banking sector, without important results in fulfilling the commitments undertaken by the Association Agreement with the EU. As a result, the negotiations with the IMF were interrupted, the obtaining of macro-financial assistance from the IMF and the EU was postponed and the provision of US$45 million in financial assistance by the World Bank was suspended.
The statement also says that the negotiations on the formation of a pro-European coalition stagnate and nobody hurries to take the country out of the difficult situation in which it is. “We call on the parties involved in the talks to sit at the negotiating table and to work out a plan for overcoming the crisis. The negotiations must be held in a transparent way so that all the possible deviations are avoided from the moment the coalition is formed,” reads the statement.
At the beginning of this week, the Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Pirkka Tapiola in a TV program said the European Union decided to halt the financial support provided to Moldova and hopes a parliamentary majority will be constituted, which would invest a new Government so that this opened negotiations with the IMF.
