PRESIDENT DODON MAINTAINS MOLDOVA HAS SUFFERED OF GLOBALIZATION MORE THAN OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

The Republic of Moldova has suffered of globalization more than any other country on the European continent, President Igor Dodon stated on Friday, addressing the international conference “Financial Capitalism and Its Alternatives” being held in Chisinau.

“Instead of classical capitalism based on labor ethic, on social responsibility and on the principle of proximity known to us from history, last few decades have seen the formation of a diametrically different model. Globalization has permitted creating a historically unprecedented concentration of capitals, having categorically violated the economic balance between countries and regions, and between social layers from the formerly ‘rich West’”, said President Dodon.

In his opinion, one of the serious consequences of such a globalization models is the massive migration of millions of people who have lost their national roots and have become unskilled labor at foreign markets.

“In this sense, Moldova has suffered most of all other countries on the continent. Nearly a million of Moldovans, i.e. nearly one-third of the Moldovan population, have to earn their living in foreign countries”, said Dodon.

With reference to his previous practical experience of an economy minister and of a deputy prime minister in charge of the economic and financial block of questions in the Government, Igor Dodon voiced conviction that Moldova’s economic problems are caused not by the Government’s reluctance to follow foreign instructions but by the fact that the Moldovan Government has been obediently following the instructions last 25 years.

“After the quarter-century-long transition period, Moldova must re-consider the paradigm of its economic development. A new concept of economic revival must be totally free of economic isolationism and free of neglect of the norms of international exchange. At the same time, without certain elements of economic protectionism or “economic patriotism”, Moldova will have no chance for overcoming backwardness in its development”, said the President.

Dodon admitted that the Moldovan society has been split along geopolitical, historic and ethnic and language lines.

“But while our ideological or cultural preferences separate us, economic nationalism is becoming the main factor of national unity, a broad common platform for all patriots of the country to stand on. To look for alternative decisions for ‘financial capitalism’ means not to remain in the zone of classical academic thinking but to generate viable conceptions covering geopolitical, politico-legal and financial-economic aspects”, said President Dodon.

He called to get rid of “new liberal myths” – that the society’s economic success is allegedly guaranteed by the so-called “small government” i.e. by the state’s retreating before the self-regulating market and by following the magic principle of an “invisible hand”.

The international conference in Chisinau was organized by the Popular University of Moldova founded by Iurie Rosca, the former leader of the Moldovan Popular Front, which developed subsequently into the Christian Democratic Popular Party (CDPP). In 2005, Rosca shocked many in Moldova by entering into an active cooperation with then-ruling Communist Party, his mortal political enemy until that moment.

After the CDPP suffered a resounding defeat at the 2009 parliamentary election, Rosca quitted active politics and started promoting – through the Popular University he had founded – the ideas of Eurasian integration. Presently he actively collaborates with Russian philosopher Alexander Doughin, who is also one of the organizers and participants of the conference concerned.