Why did they have to ‘bite’ EU Ambassador to Moldova Dirk Schuebel?

[Info-Prim Neo analysis-question] On June 9, a media outlet published a news story about a statement made by Prime Minister Vlad Filat who, for his part, referred to a statement made by the Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova Dirk Schuebel. The Premier expressed his dissatisfaction with the, according to him, not fully diplomatic language used by the European official to characterize the relations between the EU and Moldova. “The honeymoon is over. We now became a real couple and time has come to work together, live together, have the same massages and do the same acts,” the European diplomat said on May 26, when assessing the Moldova Country Report on the results achieved in 2010 {(see the context in which the statement was made)}. In over two weeks, Vlad Filat replied to him in the program “Moldova in direct” on the public TV channel Moldova 1. It was a reply addressed openly to a certain person, ‘even if this person has the status of ambassador’. “The language used by Mister Schuebel is not fully diplomatic. We do not act on the basis of someone’s expectations, even if they have the status of ambassador. We have a plan of action with the EU and focus on it. We obey all the terms and the documents confirm this,” said Vlad Filat. The resumption of this topic, without visible reasons, in over two weeks generates a number of questions. Here are some of them: - Why did they have to ‘bite’ the Head of the EU Delegation to Moldova Dirk Schuebel for several times, for a statement made over two weeks ago? - Did this statement anger somebody in Moldova so seriously that it cannot be pardoned? - Was the message formulated by Dirk Schuebel ‘not fully diplomatic’? - Was the Premier’s reaction to the European official’s message diplomatic? - Was the Premier’s message addressed only to Ambassador Schuebel or he hoped it will get to his superiors in Brussels? - Was it known that Dirk Schuebel wasn’t in Moldova when the replies were made and will return not soon? - Was it known that he wasn’t probably in Brussels either? - Were the replies made in that period so that Ambassador Schuebel could not respond to them and give explanations to his superiors in Brussels? - Does this exchange of statements point to a certain change in the EU-Moldova relations? - Is this possible change somehow related to the results of the local elections in Moldova, especially in the municipality of Chisinau? - Did somebody in Moldova or abroad consider diplomatic the expressions used by Vladimir Voronin while President in relation to foreign diplomats and important organizations, including the mildest one ’going like the goats after carrots’ to refer to the international financial organizations? - Did the anger inside the ruling alliance start to extend to the relations with Moldova’s strategic partners and/or their representatives? - Was Dirk Schuebel somehow co-opted into the Alliance for European Integration that has ruled Moldova for two years? - How conformable will the other ambassadors working in Moldova feel from now on and what reports will they send home about the conveniences provided by this country? - Will the European Union and other strategic partners of Moldova leave the non-diplomatic reply addressed to a European official without reply? - Are there other questions we should put? [Valeriu Vasilica, Info-Prim Neo]