08 May 2026 14:59<\/p>\n
The European Union is aiming to move quickly on Moldova\u2019s path towards membership, though no formal date has been set for opening accession talks, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on May 8.<\/p>\n
Speaking alongside Moldovan President Maia Sandu in Chisinau, Kallas said the EU was ready to accelerate the process amid a shifting political landscape in Europe, Caliber.Az<\/a> reports, citing<\/a> foreign media.<\/p>\n \u201cWe haven’t set that date, \u2060but it’s clear that we need to move fast,\u201d Kallas told a joint press conference, adding that recent government changes in several countries had opened a window of opportunity.<\/p>\n \u201cSo that’s why I also think that we should move \u200cwhile \u2060nobody is against Moldova, because you never know when there comes a government that might have, you know, a bilateral issue.”<\/p>\n Kallas also said Moldova had made meaningful progress on reforms and suggested that the breakaway region of Transdniestria \u201cwill not become \u2060an obstacle\u201d to the country\u2019s EU ambitions.<\/p>\n Sandu reiterated Moldova\u2019s commitment to signing an accession treaty by 2028, underscoring Chisinau\u2019s long-term goal of EU membership.<\/p>\n By Aghakazim Guliyev<\/p>\n Caliber.Az<\/p>\n Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n Views: 139<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"08 May 2026 14:59 The European Union is aiming to move quickly on Moldova\u2019s path towards membership, though…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[2626,2416,2631,2627,2630,2625,2629,442,2628,2624],"class_list":{"0":"post-62359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kaja-kallas","8":"tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","9":"tag-azerbaijan","10":"tag-baku","11":"tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","12":"tag-international-experts","13":"tag-interviews","14":"tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","15":"tag-kaja-kallas","16":"tag-news-from-baku","17":"tag-news-of-azerbaijan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116538892766482875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}