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Moldova gets big IMF loan to avoid "a total collapse"
February 02, 2010Moldovan and International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials have signed an agreement for a $574 million loan that Chisinau says will help it bridge its ballooning budget deficit, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat said...
Ukraine Presidential Poll: Campaigning ends, Tymoshenko comes 3rd
January 15, 2010Campaigning ends today in Ukraine ahead of the January 17 presidential election. Polls show Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko trailing Viktor Yanukovych. President Viktor Yushchenko -- who beat Yanukovych in the 2004 "Orange Revolution" -- is...
Romanian Constitutional Court says Basescu wins presidential vote
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December 15, 2009Romania's Constitutional Court has validated the results of a closely fought presidential runoff, handing incumbent Traian Basescu a second term and heralding an end to protracted political and economic crises. The court unanimously rejected a complaint...
Moldovan premier: Failed polls not to harm relations with EU, IMF
December 08, 2009The failure to elect president will not affect Moldova's relations with the EU or the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Prime Minister Vlad Filat said on 7 December after the repeat presidential election. Filat said that he agreed with the EU and...
EU will provide 30m euros to Moldova to implement reforms
November 30, 2009The European Union will provide 30.1 million euros for Moldova to help this country to promote reforms and combat the economic crisis, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Union's Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy,...
Mircea Geoana pleads for strategic partnership with Moldova
November 03, 2009Romania's new president will have to have a strategic partnership with the Republic of Moldova, relying on an extremely tight economic partnership between the two countries, Social Democratic Party (PSD) president Mircea Geoana told the Invest Energy...
Moldovan PM to meet with Romanian President, Russian counterpart
November 03, 2009Prime Minister Vlad Filat was on ProTV tonight, speaking about the current political situation in Moldova and about the various loans that Moldova is seeking abroad. Mr. Filat spoke about the possibility of getting a one-billion-dollar loan from China...
Ghimpu: Moldova's association agreement with EU is AEI's priority
October 13, 2009The signature of an association agreement with EU is a priority task the ruling Alliance for European Integration has set itself, Moldova's Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu stated over Radio Moldova on Monday. According to him...
Moldova: Russian peacekeepers, big loans and the need for reforms
October 08, 2009By Louis O'Neill Moldova hosts the Summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States this week and hopes to have a better turnout than President Medvedev did in July, at the annual "summit-at-the-races". Back then, only five CIS leaders made...
Moldova Leader Confident Of Breakthrough With Communists
October 05, 2009Acting Moldovan President Mihai Ghimpu says he is confident that the opposition Communist Party will help end a political deadlock over the election of a president, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Ghimpu told RFE/RL on October 5 that electing a president...