“Independence is not guaranteed: it depends on the choices we make,” Sandu told the same news conference, warning of risks from “illegal foreign financing, disinformation, cyber-attacks, paid protests”.<\/p>\n
Germany would do everything possible to get Moldova in a position to open the first chapter of EU accession negotiations in the autumn, Merz said.<\/p>\n
“We will send experts to support reforms,” he added. “German and European money is helping secure energy supplies and boosting small and medium companies.”<\/p>\n
Polls suggest a hard-fought race between Sandu’s Party of Action and Solidarity and the pro-Russian bloc of Communist and Socialist parties.<\/p>\n
Once heavily dependent on Russia for energy and export markets, Moldova has reoriented its economy towards Romania and the EU since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.<\/p>\n
“Kremlin propaganda says the Europeans want to prolong the war and that the European Union oppresses people,” said Macron.<\/p>\n
“These are lies.”<\/p>\n
Tusk echoed that sentiment, saying there was “no safe EU, no safe Poland, no safe France or Germany without an independent and safe Moldova.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Independence is not guaranteed: it depends on the choices we make,” Sandu told the same news conference, warning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-378296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115102168245080932","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}