{"id":446588,"date":"2019-02-04T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=446588"},"modified":"2019-02-04T11:29:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T11:29:35","slug":"parliamentary-elections-determining-factor-future-relations-moldova-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/parliamentary-elections-determining-factor-future-relations-moldova-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliamentary elections &#8211; the determining factor for the future of relations between Moldova and European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The European Union, through its positions and following negotiations with the central authorities, signaled its main objections to the situation in the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, by the end of 2017, the EU published a list of 28 conditionalities for the government in Chi\u015fin\u0103u in order to provide macro-financial assistance. In addition to the economic and financial criteria, the document contains conditionalities and a political one.<\/p>\n<p>The political analyst mentions that in 2018 the Moldovan-EU dialogue became even more complicated. Assessing the state of relations between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union, 2018 can be divided into two parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the first half of the year, the Republic of Moldova has tried to maintain a dialogue with the EU<\/strong> in the light of technical discussions, abstracted from the subject of changing the electoral system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the second half, after the invalidation of elections in Chisinau, the dialogue between the Republic of Moldova and the EU was predominantly focused on the field of politics<\/strong>, being influenced by the degradation of Moldovan democracy. These problems prevailed on the progress and commercial gains achieved by Chisinau following the implementation of DCFTA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On February 26, 2018, the EU Council, in its conclusions, made a radiograph of the situation in the Republic of Moldova.<\/strong> Thus, the Council points to all the existing issues &#8211; from the chronic ones, such as the fight against corruption and the lack of reforms in the judiciary, to more recent ones, such as changing the electoral system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On 5 April 2018, the European Commission published the joint report of the European Commission and the European External Action Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main conclusions of the report highlight that the Republic of Moldova has managed to stabilize its economic situation and, with the constant but conditional support of the EU and other international partners, has made progress in certain areas, including the consolidation of the free trade area.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>more efforts are needed<\/strong>, in particular, to combat high-level corruption, a deep reform of the judiciary, recovery of funds diverted by bank fraud and the deportation of justice to those responsible for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, 2018, the EU-Moldova Association Council reviewed progress as a result of the implementation of the Association Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Moldova&#8217;s success in certain areas, in particular, the implementation of the provisions related to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, <strong>the main failures are highlighted &#8211; the problems of justice,<\/strong> high-level<strong> corruption, and so on<\/strong>. This is why the EU has signaled the existence of regress in areas such as the electoral system, the media and civil society.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of EU macro-financial assistance, European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said that the Republic of Moldova would still need to fulfill two conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The first is the full functionality of the National Integrity Authority, and the second is the adoption of an additional budget for the functioning of anti-corruption institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the second half of 2018, the political dialogue between the Republic of Moldova and the EU entered a complicated phase after the invalidation of the June elections in Chisinau.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MEPs adopted a resolution on 5 July to suspend the macro-financial assistance for the Republic of Moldova due to the failure to comply with the political preconditions stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova from the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, declared that the suspension of the assistance was related to how t<strong>he Moldovan justice system violated the popular will expressed by vote<\/strong>, abusively interpreting the electoral law, and the invalidation of the elections in Chisinau was not a good sign for the upcoming elections Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of the Republic of Moldova reacted to the European Parliament&#8217;s resolution in a press release on 7 July in which it considered the resolution to be incorrect and politicized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regarding the invalidation of elections in Chisinau, the Moldovan authorities explained that they can not allow interference in the act of justice, accusing the European Union of the fact that the current state of justice in the Republic of Moldova is also the result of the activity of the European officials who assisted the reform of the Moldovan judicial system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Union reconfirmed its tough stance towards the Republic of Moldova through a new European Parliament resolution issued on 14 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution lists the regressions registered by the Republic of Moldova, such as <strong>changes in electoral legislation, the invalidation of general local elections in Chisinau, the lack of transparency in the bank fraud case, and changes in the fiscal field, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It also once again specifies that the EU will only release the macro-financial assistance after the parliamentary elections if they are conducted in accordance with the democratic criteria characteristic of an electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2018, the EU officially announced that it was reducing its financial support due to the deterioration of the rule of law and democracy in the Republic of Moldova, expecting the Moldovan authorities to take urgent and immediate action to remedy the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Under these circumstances, the nature of the Moldovan-EU dialogue in 2019, but also its near future and medium-term future, will very much depend on how the Moldovan authorities will organize the next parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Will these elections be organized in a credible, inclusive and transparent manner or not? It will all depend on the way in which the parliamentary elections will be organized and the state of Moldova&#8217;s dialogue with the European Union, which will carefully monitor the electoral and post-electoral process in the Republic of Moldova,&#8221; notes Ion T\u0103b\u00e2r\u0163\u0103.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>The relations between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union have gone through several stages in the last years, being far from having a linear evolution. The return to the normality of dialogue between the parties in 2016 did not last long because, since the summer of 2017, with the change of the electoral binom\u00a0by the Socialist Party of Moldova and Democratic Party of Moldova, to the detriment of the recommendations of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and OSCE \/ ODIHR, relations between Chisinau and Brussels began to deteriorate again, writes political analyst Ion T\u0103b\u00e2r\u021b\u0103.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":446589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[115,200,147,100,60,168,198,205,195,35,27,204,201,112,199,203,202],"class_list":["post-446588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-democratic-party","tag-democratic-party-of-moldova","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-ex-soviet","tag-fraud","tag-igor-dodon","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-orthodox","tag-parliamentary-elections","tag-plahotniuc","tag-poor","tag-president","tag-socialist-party-of-moldova"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 4<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>The European Union, through its positions and following negotiations with the central authorities, signaled its main objections to the situation in the Republic of Moldova.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, by the end of 2017, the EU published a list of 28 conditionalities for the government in Chi\u015fin\u0103u in order to provide macro-financial assistance. In addition to the economic and financial criteria, the document contains conditionalities and a political one.<\/p>\n<p>The political analyst mentions that in 2018 the Moldovan-EU dialogue became even more complicated. Assessing the state of relations between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union, 2018 can be divided into two parts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the first half of the year, the Republic of Moldova has tried to maintain a dialogue with the EU<\/strong> in the light of technical discussions, abstracted from the subject of changing the electoral system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the second half, after the invalidation of elections in Chisinau, the dialogue between the Republic of Moldova and the EU was predominantly focused on the field of politics<\/strong>, being influenced by the degradation of Moldovan democracy. These problems prevailed on the progress and commercial gains achieved by Chisinau following the implementation of DCFTA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On February 26, 2018, the EU Council, in its conclusions, made a radiograph of the situation in the Republic of Moldova.<\/strong> Thus, the Council points to all the existing issues &#8211; from the chronic ones, such as the fight against corruption and the lack of reforms in the judiciary, to more recent ones, such as changing the electoral system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On 5 April 2018, the European Commission published the joint report of the European Commission and the European External Action Service.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main conclusions of the report highlight that the Republic of Moldova has managed to stabilize its economic situation and, with the constant but conditional support of the EU and other international partners, has made progress in certain areas, including the consolidation of the free trade area.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>more efforts are needed<\/strong>, in particular, to combat high-level corruption, a deep reform of the judiciary, recovery of funds diverted by bank fraud and the deportation of justice to those responsible for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>On May 3, 2018, the EU-Moldova Association Council reviewed progress as a result of the implementation of the Association Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Moldova&#8217;s success in certain areas, in particular, the implementation of the provisions related to the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area, <strong>the main failures are highlighted &#8211; the problems of justice,<\/strong> high-level<strong> corruption, and so on<\/strong>. This is why the EU has signaled the existence of regress in areas such as the electoral system, the media and civil society.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of EU macro-financial assistance, European Commissioner for Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn said that the Republic of Moldova would still need to fulfill two conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The first is the full functionality of the National Integrity Authority, and the second is the adoption of an additional budget for the functioning of anti-corruption institutions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the second half of 2018, the political dialogue between the Republic of Moldova and the EU entered a complicated phase after the invalidation of the June elections in Chisinau.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MEPs adopted a resolution on 5 July to suspend the macro-financial assistance for the Republic of Moldova due to the failure to comply with the political preconditions stipulated in the Memorandum of Understanding between the European Union and the Republic of Moldova from the end of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Head of European diplomacy, Federica Mogherini, declared that the suspension of the assistance was related to how t<strong>he Moldovan justice system violated the popular will expressed by vote<\/strong>, abusively interpreting the electoral law, and the invalidation of the elections in Chisinau was not a good sign for the upcoming elections Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Government of the Republic of Moldova reacted to the European Parliament&#8217;s resolution in a press release on 7 July in which it considered the resolution to be incorrect and politicized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Regarding the invalidation of elections in Chisinau, the Moldovan authorities explained that they can not allow interference in the act of justice, accusing the European Union of the fact that the current state of justice in the Republic of Moldova is also the result of the activity of the European officials who assisted the reform of the Moldovan judicial system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Union reconfirmed its tough stance towards the Republic of Moldova through a new European Parliament resolution issued on 14 November 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution lists the regressions registered by the Republic of Moldova, such as <strong>changes in electoral legislation, the invalidation of general local elections in Chisinau, the lack of transparency in the bank fraud case, and changes in the fiscal field, etc.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It also once again specifies that the EU will only release the macro-financial assistance after the parliamentary elections if they are conducted in accordance with the democratic criteria characteristic of an electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of 2018, the EU officially announced that it was reducing its financial support due to the deterioration of the rule of law and democracy in the Republic of Moldova, expecting the Moldovan authorities to take urgent and immediate action to remedy the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Under these circumstances, the nature of the Moldovan-EU dialogue in 2019, but also its near future and medium-term future, will very much depend on how the Moldovan authorities will organize the next parliamentary elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Will these elections be organized in a credible, inclusive and transparent manner or not? It will all depend on the way in which the parliamentary elections will be organized and the state of Moldova&#8217;s dialogue with the European Union, which will carefully monitor the electoral and post-electoral process in the Republic of Moldova,&#8221; notes Ion T\u0103b\u00e2r\u0163\u0103.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='heateorSssClear'><\/div><div  class='heateor_sss_sharing_container heateor_sss_horizontal_sharing' data-heateor-sss-href='https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/parliamentary-elections-determining-factor-future-relations-moldova-european-union\/' data-heateor-sss-no-counts=\"1\"><div class='heateor_sss_sharing_title' style=\"font-weight:bold\" ><\/div><div class=\"heateor_sss_sharing_ul\"><a aria-label=\"Facebook\" class=\"heateor_sss_facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moldova.org%2Fen%2Fparliamentary-elections-determining-factor-future-relations-moldova-european-union%2F\" title=\"Facebook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" 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