Filat Criticized the Authorities’ Efforts to Join the EU: We Risk Being an Eternal Candidate, like Turkey

The former Prime Minister of the country and ex-chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova Vlad Filat has criticized the efforts of the central authorities of Chisinau to obtain the status of EU member state. According to Filat, the current government seems to be only willing to take advantage of the benefits of the status of a member state, reports tv8.md The former prime minister believes that Moldova is as far from the EU as Georgia is. “Analyzing the conditions set by the European Commission, but not voiced by the European Council thanks to Romania’s intervention, we can say that we are as far from the EU as Georgia, and the candidate country status is more of a political signal to show that Ukraine and Moldova were not abandoned before Russian militarism, rather than a clear intention to accept us,” Vlad Filat posted on Facebook. The country’s former Prime Minister argues that Moldova may not begin accession talks with the EU until next fall. “The main pillar, the negotiating team, is not even created yet,” Vlad Filat notes. “Because of the changes in the EU bloc, without speeding up the accession process by starting negotiations, we risk remaining, like Turkey, an eternal candidate for the European Union. At the same time, without a good domestic policy, we cannot have a good foreign policy and for this reason, the singularization of the PAS and Maia Sandu, the rupture with other political actors can lead to a long-term destruction of the entire political system and the return of revanchist leftist forces and submission to foreign interests,” Filat said. The former Prime Minister states that the news that we are a candidate country caused very little emotion among citizens, especially those who know what being a member of the European community entails, because most Moldovans joined the EU when visas were abolished. Point