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Briefness first and foremost – October 12, 2018 IPN digest


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The seven Turkish citizens who were declared undesirable and sent to Turkey weren’t extradited at the request of Turkey. These persons were declared undesirable and expelled in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Moldova, Prime Minister Pavel Filip stated in the talk show “Fourth power” on N4 channel. He confessed yet that in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, he was requested that the Moldovan authorities should close the lyceum “Orizont”. The second time the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself made a similar request and this was again rejected... We will yet see what the teachers who taught children during over two decades do against the Republic of Moldova.

In another development, the Premier said that if the identified and sequestrated goods are recovered, the obtained sum will exceed the US$ 1 billion that was stolen from the banking system. If, in the future… Now they  chose to delay the conviction of Shor, to liberalize the capital, to sell the nationality, etc.

For the investigation of the banking fraud, seven-nine months was enough if there was will. If a new prosecutor investigates the banking fraud from zero, he can do this because the evidence cannot be destroyed, especially when it is about bank transfers. The issue was developed in the talk show “Politics of Nataliei Morari” on TV8 channel.

But this too shall pass, said the Latins. The optimism of the senator for Romanians from the diaspora of the Parliament of Romania Viorel Badea, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, is welcome. In an interview for Radio Free Europe, he said a medium- and long-term framework strategy is needed for the Republic of Moldova and this should be strictly respected by any Romanian government, regardless of its political color. Furthermore, the Moldovans should be able to regain the Romanian nationality during at most a week, with appropriate apologies.

The reality cannot be discussed in a nostalgic tonality. There is discrepancy between the European integration concept, the European integration and the realities in the Republic of Moldova, Western political analyst Vladimir Socor stated in a debate held in Bucharest by the Black Sea University Foundation. The expert noted Moldova’s foreign policy is that of a captured state and is designed to serve those who control this state.

According to Vladimir Socor, the former EU Ambassador in Chisinau Pirkka Tapiola warned Brussels during many years not to associate the EU’s image in Moldova with Vlad Plahotniuc and his government. During several years, Pirkka Tapiola hadn’t been listened to and the European Commission acted almost inversely. But the current European Commission corrected this policy and could not do otherwise after the theft of the US$ 1 billion, the adoption of the electoral system that guarantees Igor Dodon’s party the second place in the Moldovan political system and the invalidation of the Chisinau mayoral elections.

The IPN Experts said the politicians make all kind of shows to attract the sympathy of voters and the PDM’s intention to enshrine the European integration course in the Constitution as the county’s strategic development course is an element of these shows. They noted that on March 24, 2005, the parliamentary groups adopted the Moldovan Parliament’s DECLARATION concerning the political partnership for achieving the European integration objectives, which said: Being political opponents, having different opinions on the methods, stages and periods for reforming the economy and the social sphere of the Republic of Moldova, mentioning the existence of particular disagreements on domestic and foreign policy matters, the members of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova adopt the following Declaration on political partnership for four years (2005-2009) in a move to achieve the European integration objectives. We consider the further development of the Republic of Moldova can be ensured only by the consistent and irreversible promotion of the strategic European integration course... All the parliamentary groups, all the 101 MPs, regardless of the embraced ideology, voted the given declaration.

The adoption of the legislative initiative to introduce the European integration course in the Constitution of the Republic of Moldova failed in the October 12 sitting of Parliament. The Socialist parliamentary group left the assembly hall in protest, saying the power in the state is being usurped. The Liberal MPs left before the voting procedure. At the suggestion of Speaker Andrian Candu, who is one of the authors of the bill, the draft law was to be put to a nominal vote. However, after the debates and speeches that lasted for over three hours, the Speaker proposed that the vote should be postponed until next week.

Until then, go to the Romanian Film Days at the Odeon Cinema in Chisinau today and tomorrow. Entrance to the screenings is free of charge.

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