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​EU RECOMMENDS MOLDOVA TO STRENGTHEN STRUGGLE AGAINST CORRUPTION, CONTINUE REFORMS AND IMPROVE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

27 march, 2015

The European Union presumes that Moldova should invigorate its struggle against corruption, continue reforms in the judiciary system, improve the system of corporate management, raise transparency in the banking sector, and revise the Constitution.

This is said in the European Commission’s “ENP Country Progress Report 2014 – Republic of Moldova” that contains an assessment of the realization of the European Neighborhood Policy with 16 partner countries in Eastern Europe and in the southern Mediterranean region, and recommendations formulated for a year ahead.

The document says that in 2014, Association Agreements were signed with Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine. Democratic transformations took place in Tunisia, and relations with Morocco were improved. Nevertheless, conflicts and crises related to security and humanitarian problems continue in the east as well as in the south, particularly in the form of terror threats and attacks.

“2014 has been a period of general political stability for the Republic of Moldova. The government continued to steadily work on the country’s European Agenda. On 27 June 2014 the Association Agreement including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (AA/DCFTA) was signed and its provisional application began on 1 September 2014. On 28 April 2014 the visa-free regime took effect and around 360,000 persons traveled visa-free to the EU in 2014”, said document.

Its authors underscored the progress achieved by Moldova in the fields of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

“The government implemented legislation on the judiciary reform fulfilling notable benchmarks laid down in the Justice Sector Reform Strategy 2011-2016. Nonetheless, the reform of the Public Prosecutorґs office stalled and corruption remained a major issue”, believes the European Commission.

It drew attention that, supported by the OSCE, the Republic of Moldova attempted to re-define the relationship between the Gagauz Autonomous Region and the central authorities. However, “Little progress was reached. Minimal progress was reached towards a resolution of the Transnistrian conflict”.

During the year, the European Union furnished to Moldova, through the European neighborhood instrument, 131 million euros in support of the realization of the free trade agreement, reform of state finance, agriculture and rural development.

The Report on Moldova will be presented to a greater detail by Ambassador Pirkka Tapiola, Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Moldova, at his news conference next Monday.

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