The government’s stability in Moldova remains directly proportional to the level of political support, but also to that of financial support, which the development partners, in particular the EU, are ready to offer, politologist Dionis Cenusa writes in a new opinion article for IPN.

According to Cenusa, the current government is perceived by the Moldovan public namely through the quality of reforms, while the absolute majority of reforms result from the way in which the Association Agreement is transposed.

The politologist notes that the Moldovan authorities in Brussels asked for political and financial assistance from the EU in doing reforms. He considers that such types of messages contain hidden risks to the image and credibility of the EU because they substitute the role of indispensable internal political will to do the reforms expected by the EU. 

Thus, the public opinion is misled, expectations being created more of the EU than of the government, which is the only one responsible for governance and, respectively, for the quality of the done reforms, wrote Dionis Cenusa.

He concludes that this assistance must not substitute the authorities’ obligation to do reforms and use them as a method of earning additional revenues for the state budget. These incomes can be obtained by correctly applying the anticorruption policies and by better managing the public funds and property.