{"id":443402,"date":"2017-02-07T21:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=443402"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:32:36","slug":"moldova-president-dodon-eu-council-president-tusk-will-support-cancelling-association-agreement-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/moldova-president-dodon-eu-council-president-tusk-will-support-cancelling-association-agreement-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldova President Dodon to EU Council President Tusk: I will support cancelling the Association Agreement in a referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

On February 7th, the President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, made a visit to the European Union institutions and had several meeting with EU officials.<\/p>\n

When meeting the EU Council President Donald Tusk, Dodon reportedly told that the Association Agreement between Moldova and the Union, together with the implemented DCFTA would not prove its necessity.<\/p>\n

“I reiterated the fact that if, after the results of ordinary or preliminary Parliamentary elections or a referendum, it would be decided to cancel the Association Agreement with the European Union, I as a President would support this initiative”,\u00a0<\/em>says Dodon in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

The Moldovan President thinks that the decrease of trust in the European institutions between 2009 and 2016 was caused “by the bad governance, but also the double standards with geopolitical context that the European officials applied to everything happened during these years at Chi\u0219in\u0103u”<\/em>. He\u00a0also proposed to Tusk to reflect on a\u00a0trilateral format of negotiations on trade between the EU, Moldova and Russia.<\/p>\n

Dodon asked the European institutions to offer assistance in the investigation of the banking frauds, because they happened after the signing of the Association Agreement. He suggested that the reforms are largely faked at Chi\u0219in\u0103u, especially when it comes to the reformation of the justice and prosecutions systems.<\/p>\n

At the same time, President Tusk tweeted that he remains optimistic towards the Association Agreement’s good purpose and future.<\/p>\n

\n

I remain convinced that EU-Moldova cooperation incl. AA\/DCFTA is in Moldova’s best interest for reforms & future. pic.twitter.com\/gPaliwrT6I<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) February 7, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n