{"id":542707,"date":"2025-11-01T20:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542707\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:14:13","slug":"moldova-installs-pro-eu-munteanu-as-new-prime-minister-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/542707\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova installs pro-EU Munteanu as new prime minister \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have a unique opportunity to become the government that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/antonio-costa-seeks-bypass-viktor-orban-veto-ukraine-eu-membership-bid-copenhagen-summit\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/antonio-costa-seeks-bypass-viktor-orban-veto-ukraine-eu-membership-bid-copenhagen-summit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will bring Moldova into the European Union<\/a>,\u201d Munteanu said on Friday before the vote of confidence. The newly elected prime minister won the backing of 55 of the 101 MPs.<\/p>\n<p>Sandu\u2019s PAS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-grins-russia-grouses-after-pro-europe-forces-pas-win-moldova-election\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-grins-russia-grouses-after-pro-europe-forces-pas-win-moldova-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cruised to victory<\/a> in September, securing more than 50 percent of the votes over the pro-Russian Patriotic Electoral Bloc (BEP), which won 24.2 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The election <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/polls-moldova-vote-eu-path-russia-interference-election-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was marred<\/a> by what officials described as an \u201cunprecedented\u201d Russian hybrid interference campaign aimed at undermining Moldova\u2019s pro-European drive through disinformation, vote-buying, and attempts to incite unrest, according to national security officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter years of having to manage multiple crises and challenges, starting today, we need a government that focuses more on development and completes Moldova\u2019s transformation into a modern European state,\u201d said Sandu in <a href=\"https:\/\/presedinte.md\/rom\/presa\/guvernul-condus-de-prim-ministrul-alexandru-munteanu-a-depus-juramntul-de-investire-in-prezenta-sefei-statului-maia-sandu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement<\/a> after Munteanu\u2019s swearing-in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore you stands a country that needs trust and results. I wish you strength, wisdom in your decisions, and unity in your actions. May it be an auspicious beginning, and may you have success in all you do for the good of the Republic of Moldova and its people,\u201d said Sandu, addressing the new government\u2019s Cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have a unique opportunity to become the government that will bring Moldova into the European Union,\u201d Munteanu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[331,12495,13071,33,6561,2000,299,5187,1699,51099,13491,6564,5111,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-542707","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-disinformation","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-enlargement","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-maia-sandu","18":"tag-moldova","19":"tag-neighborhood","20":"tag-parliament","21":"tag-security"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115476277884397047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542707","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=542707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}