Moldova’s role in Eastern Security Belt discussed by European interior ministers

10.03.2023 17:17
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The European Union’s Directorate-General for Home Affairs is evaluating in Brussels a real-time response mechanism to protect European countries from hybrid threats posed by Russia. According to the Moldovan Ministry of the Interior, Moldova is evaluated in this context as a key element in the new European security architecture.

According to the information note presented by Commissioner Ylva Johansson to the members of the European Union Council for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA), the Security Hub of the European Union for internal security and border management of the Republic of Moldova, created last year, recorded results that speak in favor of strengthening this mechanism.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Moldova has provided relevant analytical products in the field of transnational crime, hybrid threats and incidents that pose a risk to public security in the region and in Europe.

After examining the activity report for the first six months, the European officials will discuss proposals for developing the Security Hub in the next period. Also, a technical session will take place to discuss Moldova’s closer involvement in the EU’s counter-terrorism mechanisms.

Before the fifth meeting of the EU Security Center, Moldova’s Minister of the Interior Ana Revenco said that solutions to increase efficiency in the fight against crime and hybrid warfare are being addressed today, together with several Ministers of the Interior of the states from the European Union and law enforcement specialists from the EU and Moldova. “We are identifying formats for the short- and medium-term strategic construction of the Security Hub, which will become a real-time response mechanism for the protection of Europe”, the minister was quoted in a press release.

The 2023 agenda of the Security Hub includes improving the capabilities of analysis and strategic forecasting in the field of security, by capitalizing on IT and the exchange of information between the experts of the Republic of Moldova and the EU. The Hub also aims to create synergies and avoid duplication of expenditure in the field of internal affairs in the Republic of Moldova and the EU.