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Moldova fails again to choose a new president
December 16, 2011Deutsche Welle/ Chisinau -- With Ukraine moving away from the EU, Moldova could become eastern Europe's new golden child. But the Moldovan parliament has failed once again to select a new president. Moldova's parliament failed to select a new president...
Poll shows Moldovans losing interest in EU, warming up to Russia
November 18, 2011RFE/RL/ Chisinau -- A new poll shows Moldovans are losing interest in the post-Soviet country's European integration and are warming up to the idea of joining a Commonwealth of Independent States' (CIS) free-trade zone led by Russia, RFE/RL's Moldovan...
Like Moldova, Ukraine wants both ways - free trade agreement with EU and CIS
November 03, 2011By Pavel Korduban/ Eurasia Daily Monitor/ Washington, DC -- Ukraine has signed a free trade agreement with the CIS and completed its free trade talks with the EU. Unlike membership of the Customs Union (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan), which Moscow keeps...
Moldovan Officials Not Interested In Putin's 'Eurasian Union'
October 12, 2011CHISINAU -- Prime Minister Vlad Filat says Moldova sees its place in the European Union and isn't attracted to the "Eurasian Union" envisaged by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Filat told RFE/RL in...
Jaroslaw Suplacz: Poland on its way to Greece
August 09, 2011A stimulated GDP The Polish GDP is strongly influenced by a stream of financial transfers from the European Union, in 2010 the net income from the EU budget was about 8 billion euro. Were it not for the transfers from the Union, the change of the Polish...
OSCE appeals to Russia to finalize withdrawal of its troops from the ex-soviet Republic of Moldova
July 10, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Today the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which provides a forum for parliamentary diplomacy, monitors elections, and strengthens international cooperation to uphold commitments on political, security, economic...
The Price of Regional Hegemony
June 28, 2011The alternative to the regionalization of Europe is clear German leadership that underwrites — economically and politically — greater European integration. If Berlin can overcome the anti-euro populism that is feeding on bailout fatigue in...
June 28, 2011We therefore see Europe evolving into a set of regionalized groupings. These organizations may have different ideas about security and economic matters, one country may even belong to more than one grouping, but for the most part membership will largely...
June 28, 2011The eurozone crisis — which is engulfing EU member states using the euro but is symbolically important for the entire European Union — is therefore a crisis of trust. Do the current political and security arrangements in Europe — the...
June 28, 2011The European Union is a confederation of states that outsources day-to-day management of many policy spheres to a bureaucratic arm (the European Commission) and monetary policy to the European Central Bank. The important policy issues, such as defense...