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A new antigovernment protest movement against rampant corruption in Moldova might finally lead to real change in a politically rotten country.
Russia’s continuing meddling in Ukraine is motivating civil society across Eastern Europe to work together. That is a chance for the EU to reach out in a more sustained way.
The EU needs to realize that its neighborhood policy is a political not a technical tool, operating in a politicized environment where major conflicts take place.
The EU needs to remold its support for fundamental political reform in Eastern Partnership partner states—and use this as a firmer base from which to assuage tensions with Russia.
EU support and membership can help post-Communist countries become modern democracies, but it is citizens who have the power to complete—or reverse—those transformations.
As Moldova, Macedonia, and Montenegro are knocking on the doors of EU and NATO, the West cannot take these countries’ European orientation for granted.
Moldova has become part of a geostrategic competition between Brussels and Moscow. Russia will be determined not to let the country slip away from its influence.
The recent parliamentary election in Moldova has sharpened the competition between the EU and Russia. Moldova’s pro-Western political parties have their work cut out.
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