The results achieved by the Republic of Moldova in the field of Europeanization are minor also because the government didn’t include politicians who would have turned the European integration into a national idea. That’s why Moldova should practically start this path from zero and if the healthy forces from civil society and the politicians combine forces, things can be yet repaired, said experts invited to the talk show “Emphasis on today” on TVR Moldova channel, IPN reports.
Executive director of the Association of Independent Press Petru Macovei, representative of civil society to the Eastern Partnership Civic Platform, said the political class in Moldova should be replaced by people who understand that the European Union is the only chance for developing and modernizing Moldova. “After 2009, if we had had honest people in government who wouldn’t have parasitized on the enormous confidence enjoyed from the people, the Europeanization idea would have been a national idea that would have united the citizens of Romanian, Moldovan, Russian, Bulgarian, Gagauz nationalities as there would have been a concrete result,” stated Petru Macovei.
President of the National Environmental Center Ina Coșeru, a member of the coordination commission of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum, said that after ten years of EaP, Moldova didn’t implement reforms, but rather started to discuss the faced problems and to look solutions to them within the Association Agreement. “The legislation is not implemented even if we adopted a lot of laws in accordance with the Association Agreement,” stated Ina Coșeru.
Mihai Mogildea, expert of the Institute for European Policies and Reforms, noted significant progress was made in the period in the strategic communion sector. There are yet shortcomings as regards the direct communication with the people and their involvement in projects that are mangled and financed by the EU.
The Eastern Partnership is a joint initiative involving the EU, its Member States and six Eastern European Partners: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
