Volledig verslag van de vergaderingen

Woensdag 19 april 2023 - Straatsburg

24.4. De uitdagingen voor de Republiek Moldavië (B9-0197/2023, RC-B9-0198/2023, B9-0198/2023, B9-0199/2023, B9-0200/2023, B9-0203/2023, B9-0204/2023)

Oral explanations of vote

  Mick Wallace (The Left). – Madam President, we are totally opposed to this resolution. The EU is playing a destructive role by pushing third countries into camps of ‘us’ and ‘them’. This simplistic interpretation of the world never maps neatly onto entire populations, especially where there are religious and ethnic tensions.

The resolution is condescending to Moldovans, full of praise for the current pro-EU government, but painting those who oppose it and its policies as dupes of foreign disinformation not intelligent enough to come to an understanding of the dynamics of their own country. Could it be that Moldovans recognise that their neutrality is essential to the balance of powers that maintain peace; that President Sandu’s economic reforms are deeply unpopular? Could it be that Moldovans can see that the gas crisis partly orchestrated by the government is exasperating the cost of living and threatens to inflame tensions between the central government and the breakaway state of Transnistria? Maybe the EU itself is one of the great challenges for Moldova.