This policy brief evaluates the progress made by Republic of Moldova in implementing the National Action Plan on Visa Liberalization. The agreed Action Plan has two phases and the CRPE – APE evaluation refers to the sub-actions comprised in the first phase. From the total of 163 sub-actions, the evaluation shows that Moldova has accomplished 76% and another 10% are almost accomplished. This means a total score of 86%.
The week in which the governments of the two countries meet in a common government reunion in Iasi, the Romanian Center for European Policies publishes its annual report on the relationship between Romania and the Republic of Moldova. Named „ From rebooting relations to accumulating arrears”, the CRPE report covers the most important aspects of cooperation between these two countries in 2011.
Romania is Moldova’s most important partner for commercial trade and, for the first time in history, it overreached Russia in the volume of direct investments in Moldova. At least this is what the official statistics show, even though many Russian businessmen prefer to lead their businesses from more convenient tax systems like Cyprus and the Netherlands.
Between February-June 2011, Bogdan Manolea, CRPE affiliated expert (more details about Bogdan here) analyzed the situation of personal data protection in Moldova, and made recommendations to improve their protection in the context of visa regime liberalization with the EU.
In 2007 Romania identified the Republic of Moldova as priority country for redirecting its development funds.Once thawed in the political relations between the two countries, Romania has decided to give Moldova for the next four years (starting 2010) a grant of 100 million euro.
This Policy Brief summarizes the responses to a survey of experts who answered a total of 55 experts from Moldova - representatives of NGOs, journalists, policy makers, public officials and business representatives.
The 100 million euro financial aid which was promised to Moldova is being delayed. The authors make several recommendations for a better management of these funds.
The Romanian Center for European Policies (CRPE) released today the study “Making sense of the EU’s Eastern Partnership. Moldova as an opportunity“.
The report presents some arguments supporting the exceptional case of Moldova within the Eastern Partnership. If the EU is willing to confirm its commitment concerning the Eastern dimension of the ENP and its availability to make the Eastern Partnership a substantial policy, it wouldn't found a better occasion to encourage the currently adopted direction of Moldova. It is a common agreement among the experts, that the Eastern Partnership lacks a clear perspective and a successful story.
