Why Russia discouraged Moldova from signing an association agreement with the EU is not as active as Ukraine?
European officials after the actual failure of the "integration" of Ukraine decided to shift their attention to those whose economic corpses already nailed to the European savings. One of these countries today is Moldova, whose leadership did not dare to freeze (following the example of the Ukrainian leadership) an association agreement with the EU. Why did not dare? Well, at least, because from Russia there were no special, let's say, warnings on this subject. Kiev, all the drawbacks of signing a free trade zone agreement with the EU was described much more vividly and colorfully - this is a fact.
But why in Moscow they didn’t “explain popularly” to official Chisinau all the difficulties Moldova may have if the latter get under the economic wing ’of Brussels?
Firstly, the Moldovan leadership managed to hook itself by the presence of an unresolved (and in the present light unresolved) Transnistrian problem. The deterioration of relations with Tiraspol today is hitting any attempts by Chisinau to integrate with the West. As reported in a recent article on the “Military Review”, in the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika more than 90% of residents support the desire to integrate with Russia and the Customs Union. And if today the Moldovan authorities are going to ignore the opinion of the absolute majority of the residents of Transnistria, then in what form will Moldova go to the European Union? If only in the one in which Georgia continues to go there today, that is, in "parts" ...
Of course, at a certain stage, hotheads hatched a plan that the West to Chisinau would help solve the Transnistrian issue. There are these heads in Moldova now. They propose to remove Russian peacekeepers from the Moldovan-Transnistrian border, replacing it with "international peacekeepers." They say that the Russians will leave here - we will quickly “agree” with Tiraspol with the help of “weighty arguments” and the support of our western partners. But Transnistria is clearly not going to embark on such “negotiations”.
Secondly, to discourage Moldova from European integration is somehow strange for the reason that the representatives of the political elite of Moldova are citizens of such a state as Romania, and Romania, we recall, is a member of the European Union. In the Constitutional Court of Moldova, five out of six judges have Romanian passports. And some time ago, the former speaker of the Moldovan parliament and the former acting president. President of the country Mihai Ghimpu concerning the citizenship of the judges of the Constitutional Court stated that he would have been in favor only if the Constitutional Court had held the unification of Moldova and Romania. As they say, no comment ...
Romanian citizens, according to the Moldovan press, are such high-ranking officials as the leader of the LDPM faction in parliament Valeriu Strelet, Moldova’s representative to the PACE Anna Gutu (the one who actively tries to replace the notion “Moldovan language” with the notion “Romanian”), Interior Minister Alexei Roibu, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Stefan Urytu. There are a considerable number of citizens of Romania among the “ordinary” parliamentarians.
Moldovan citizens themselves about the presence of Romanian innocuous statements agree that the “sovereign people” of Moldova are preparing a “straw” to put it under a soft spot in case of a fall. Moldovan lawyer Anatol Plugaru speaks more specifically. According to him, the dual citizenship of Moldovan officials is a direct path to promoting the interests of another country.
It should be recalled that the dual citizenship for high-ranking officials in Moldova in 2007, thanks to the initiative of the Communist deputies, was banned. Dissatisfied (and, characteristically, among the officials themselves) were quickly found. They filed a lawsuit in the Strasbourg Court of the illegality of the decision prohibiting the second authority to have a second passport. The Strasbourg court, which was to be expected, reacted in the “right” direction - the ban order was canceled. And now even a president can be a citizen of another state in Moldova, even though the chairman of the government ...
This state of affairs, so to say, provoked ordinary citizens, who became increasingly active in the direction of obtaining a second citizenship. According to the chairman of KROM (Congress of Russian Communities of Moldova) Valery Klimenko, every month 700-800 of Moldovan families (not individuals, but families) submit petitions for the granting of Russian citizenship. And if two or three years ago, Russian citizenship was tried to get mainly in Transnistria (if you consider Transnistria de jure part of Moldova), then today residents of other Moldovan regions are trying to become the holders of a second passport.
Obtain a second citizenship in Moldova is clearly trying not to a good life. According to the latest data, the economic growth recorded by 4 (quite good, by the way, indicators by today's standards) of Moldova is mainly associated with remittances from Moldovan guest workers. The money comes from those who work in Russia, Ukraine, in the European Union countries. In other words, the Moldovan economy rests on people who leave the country to work. Given the rather specific state of affairs, it turns out that economic prosperity for Moldova is possible only if the majority of its citizens leave to work outside the state ... Such an economic paradox ...
Indeed, in such conditions, it is somewhat strange to have any talk that Moldova will lose by signing an association agreement with the EU. In fact, there is nothing to lose ... Many, as they say, economically active citizens master foreign labor markets. Someone is waiting for a passport of a citizen of Russia or of the same Romania to take out their business from Moldova (according to the latest data, even Moldovan apiaries are being transported). And by and large, anyway, anyway, Chisinau will sign an agreement with the European Union or will not sign. All the same, it seems that the Moldovan authorities, who do not even interfere with the mass departure from the country at all, say, but at least they will send the “denyuzhku” in the form of transfers along with “big greetings” to the country. Those who live and work in Moldova, it seems, do not care, but the authorities are not going to ask their opinions. The main message is: the EU will give us the golden mountains, and if it does not, we will take it ourselves - well, at least through obtaining Romanian citizenship and moving “all Moldova” to Bucharest ...
PS A few hours before the opening of the EU summit in Vilnius, Romanian Prime Minister Traian Basescu said that the main task for Romania today is the accession of Moldova.
But why in Moscow they didn’t “explain popularly” to official Chisinau all the difficulties Moldova may have if the latter get under the economic wing ’of Brussels?
Firstly, the Moldovan leadership managed to hook itself by the presence of an unresolved (and in the present light unresolved) Transnistrian problem. The deterioration of relations with Tiraspol today is hitting any attempts by Chisinau to integrate with the West. As reported in a recent article on the “Military Review”, in the Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia Respublika more than 90% of residents support the desire to integrate with Russia and the Customs Union. And if today the Moldovan authorities are going to ignore the opinion of the absolute majority of the residents of Transnistria, then in what form will Moldova go to the European Union? If only in the one in which Georgia continues to go there today, that is, in "parts" ...
Of course, at a certain stage, hotheads hatched a plan that the West to Chisinau would help solve the Transnistrian issue. There are these heads in Moldova now. They propose to remove Russian peacekeepers from the Moldovan-Transnistrian border, replacing it with "international peacekeepers." They say that the Russians will leave here - we will quickly “agree” with Tiraspol with the help of “weighty arguments” and the support of our western partners. But Transnistria is clearly not going to embark on such “negotiations”.
Secondly, to discourage Moldova from European integration is somehow strange for the reason that the representatives of the political elite of Moldova are citizens of such a state as Romania, and Romania, we recall, is a member of the European Union. In the Constitutional Court of Moldova, five out of six judges have Romanian passports. And some time ago, the former speaker of the Moldovan parliament and the former acting president. President of the country Mihai Ghimpu concerning the citizenship of the judges of the Constitutional Court stated that he would have been in favor only if the Constitutional Court had held the unification of Moldova and Romania. As they say, no comment ...
Romanian citizens, according to the Moldovan press, are such high-ranking officials as the leader of the LDPM faction in parliament Valeriu Strelet, Moldova’s representative to the PACE Anna Gutu (the one who actively tries to replace the notion “Moldovan language” with the notion “Romanian”), Interior Minister Alexei Roibu, Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Stefan Urytu. There are a considerable number of citizens of Romania among the “ordinary” parliamentarians.
Moldovan citizens themselves about the presence of Romanian innocuous statements agree that the “sovereign people” of Moldova are preparing a “straw” to put it under a soft spot in case of a fall. Moldovan lawyer Anatol Plugaru speaks more specifically. According to him, the dual citizenship of Moldovan officials is a direct path to promoting the interests of another country.
It should be recalled that the dual citizenship for high-ranking officials in Moldova in 2007, thanks to the initiative of the Communist deputies, was banned. Dissatisfied (and, characteristically, among the officials themselves) were quickly found. They filed a lawsuit in the Strasbourg Court of the illegality of the decision prohibiting the second authority to have a second passport. The Strasbourg court, which was to be expected, reacted in the “right” direction - the ban order was canceled. And now even a president can be a citizen of another state in Moldova, even though the chairman of the government ...
This state of affairs, so to say, provoked ordinary citizens, who became increasingly active in the direction of obtaining a second citizenship. According to the chairman of KROM (Congress of Russian Communities of Moldova) Valery Klimenko, every month 700-800 of Moldovan families (not individuals, but families) submit petitions for the granting of Russian citizenship. And if two or three years ago, Russian citizenship was tried to get mainly in Transnistria (if you consider Transnistria de jure part of Moldova), then today residents of other Moldovan regions are trying to become the holders of a second passport.
Obtain a second citizenship in Moldova is clearly trying not to a good life. According to the latest data, the economic growth recorded by 4 (quite good, by the way, indicators by today's standards) of Moldova is mainly associated with remittances from Moldovan guest workers. The money comes from those who work in Russia, Ukraine, in the European Union countries. In other words, the Moldovan economy rests on people who leave the country to work. Given the rather specific state of affairs, it turns out that economic prosperity for Moldova is possible only if the majority of its citizens leave to work outside the state ... Such an economic paradox ...
Indeed, in such conditions, it is somewhat strange to have any talk that Moldova will lose by signing an association agreement with the EU. In fact, there is nothing to lose ... Many, as they say, economically active citizens master foreign labor markets. Someone is waiting for a passport of a citizen of Russia or of the same Romania to take out their business from Moldova (according to the latest data, even Moldovan apiaries are being transported). And by and large, anyway, anyway, Chisinau will sign an agreement with the European Union or will not sign. All the same, it seems that the Moldovan authorities, who do not even interfere with the mass departure from the country at all, say, but at least they will send the “denyuzhku” in the form of transfers along with “big greetings” to the country. Those who live and work in Moldova, it seems, do not care, but the authorities are not going to ask their opinions. The main message is: the EU will give us the golden mountains, and if it does not, we will take it ourselves - well, at least through obtaining Romanian citizenship and moving “all Moldova” to Bucharest ...
PS A few hours before the opening of the EU summit in Vilnius, Romanian Prime Minister Traian Basescu said that the main task for Romania today is the accession of Moldova.
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