The Government, in concert with Parliament, worked out and approved a roadmap with key measures that need to be taken to advance reforms, ensuring thus stability in the country and accelerating the process of implementing the Association Agreement between Moldova and the EU. The roadmap will be discussed in the meeting of the Association Council in Brussels on March 14, IPN reports.

According to the executive, the document represents a list of measures, commitments and implementation deadlines aimed at dealing with the challenges signaled in the Conclusions of the Council of the European Union and by other development partners.

The goal of the roadmap is to lay solid institutional and legislative foundations and to muster the necessary political will and external support for doing the required reforms. Therefore, the measures included in the roadmap must be carried out within six months, by July 31, 2016.

Among the priorities are measures to fight corruption, reform the justice sector and prosecution service, ensure the freedom of the media and the public administration reform, resume the cooperation with the IMF, strengthen the independence of the financial-banking sector regulators, investigate the bank fraud and to improve transparency and the investment conditions.

The cooperation with civil society by ensuring the revision and setting of dialogue platforms by the Government and Parliament represents a separate subject.