There are many fundamental problems that haven’t been yet solved. If there had been coherence in terms of internal and external policy, the Republic of Moldova could have been integrated into the European Union and in the North Atlantic security bodies, which would have ensured a safe future, the director of the Romanian Cultural Institute “Mihai Eminescu” in Chisinau, historian Valeriu Matei said in an interview for IPN.
The poet said the political trajectory of the Republic of Moldova in these 25 years has been very sinuous, with timid steps towards freedom and dramatic for the return to the totalitarian past. “A functional economy hasn’t been built during these 25 years. The rule of law hasn’t been strengthened. The national and civic conscience hasn’t been rebuilt. Civil society is rather weak. The misinformation level is rather high. All these enabled to manipulate the population so that the people voted for parties that pleaded more for the Soviet past, rather than for the European future,” he stated.
To overcome the problems faced by the country, Valeriu Matei said political will is first of all needed to promote the European dominant. This cannot be done without respecting the truth in identity-related problems. The population that does not know what origins it has and what the name of the mother tongue is, where it comes from, what historical, cultural and spiritual values it inherited will never know where to go to. “Without rebuilding and consolidating the civic and national conscience, without strengthening civil society, informatizing all the bodies of society and correctly informing these, the future can be only gloomy,” he noted.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the declaration of Moldova’s Independence, IPN News Agency decided to depict the portrait of the current Republic of Moldova. For the purpose, it provoked a number of people, including state officials, politicians, businessmen, civil rights activists and persons without posts and titles, but who have what to say. The generic picture is called “Thoughts about and for Moldova. The articles started to be published on July 18.
