Posted on 04 December 2006 by Mihai Moscovici
European Union evaluates Moldova
There are 18 months passed since the Action Plan EU-Moldova has been signed. On a half of the way, the European Union evaluates Moldova.
Minuses
- the business climate;
- reforms related to the freedom of press;
- reforming the judicial system;
- fighting corruption.
Pluses
+ the situation at the Ukrainian border;
+ creation of the EU border assistance mission;
+ negotiation of the asymmetric trade system and of the GSP;
+ renewing the financial program with IMF (which determined other international bodies to aid Moldova).
4 pluses vs 4 minuses
Also, European Union will finance Moldova within the frameworks of the Good Neighborhood Program for 2007-2013. The total budget of the program planned for 16 neighbor countries of EU amounts to EUR 12 billion.
Cesare de Monstis, the Head of the European Commission to Moldova, said that the European Commission hopes that Moldova will obtain the second biggest part after Palestine. [via]
Photo: l’Union européenne / jdunlevy
December 5th, 2006 at 1:10 am
Unfortunately, the MOST important issues for Moldova (IMHO) are all in minuses. The things that influence most of all the development of our economy and society haven’t changed practically for the better…
December 5th, 2006 at 10:52 am
When I was writing this post I wanted to say 4 pluses vs 4 minuses = 0 effect. But I changed my mind, because it is not a zero effect. The pluses we have are also important, but of course not enough.
The question is if Moldova will be able to receive pluses for these four domains in the following 18 month (the second half of the Action Plan EU-Moldova implementation).