{"id":448254,"date":"2020-05-10T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448254"},"modified":"2020-05-10T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T12:58:47","slug":"two-different-ways-of-celebrating-may-9-victory-day-vs-europe-day-in-the-time-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/two-different-ways-of-celebrating-may-9-victory-day-vs-europe-day-in-the-time-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Two different ways of celebrating May 9: Victory Day vs Europe Day in the time of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Victory Day <\/strong><\/span>or Europe Day<\/strong><\/span> – one more reason of discord for Moldovan politicians and, as a consequence, for the Moldovan society, even during the pandemic crisis Moldova faces these days.<\/p>\n

This year, the socialist government and a part of politicians who still miss the Soviet times insisted on\u00a0commemorating the surrender of Nazi\u00a0Germany\u00a0in 1945<\/span>, while opposition politicians together with the EU countries’ embassy representatives sent messages of celebrating peace and unity in Europe<\/span>. In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, their methods of celebration were also very different.<\/p>\n

Europe Day<\/strong><\/span> was marked merely online, as Head of the Delegation of the EU to the Republic of Moldova, Peter Michalko<\/strong>, congratulated the citizens of the country, along with\u00a0the ambassadors of Poland, Austria, Romania, Sweden, Germany, Latvia, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.<\/p>\n

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