Moldova–European Union relations

Factbox: Candidates to join the European Union

European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to start accession talks with EU candidates Ukraine and Moldova while granting formal candidate status to Georgia.

Accession talks themselves could take a decade or longer. Below is a list of countries hoping to one day become members of the EU, and their formal status:

COUNTRIES WITH CANDIDATE COUNTRY STATUS

Borrell to Orban: Nobody is Forcing Hungary to be part of the European Union

"No one is forcing Hungary to be part of the European Union," said the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, on Tuesday, October 25. Thus, the EU's top diplomat responded to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's words that The European Union is a "bad modern parody" of the USSR.

Tens of thousands of Moldovans rally for EU membership

Tens of thousands of Moldovans rallied on Sunday to demand European Union membership for their country, whose bid to join the bloc has been accelerated by the war in neighbouring Ukraine.

The former Soviet republic of 2.6 million people applied last year to join the EU and in June 2022 became a candidate country, alongside Ukraine.

MAE: Financial agreement with Moldova expires; Romania remains a predictable, involved partner

The agreement between the Government of Romania and the Government of the Republic of Moldova on the technical and financial assistance programme based on a non-reimbursable financial aid of 100 million euros granted by Romania to the Republic of Moldova, signed in 2010, expires on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE) informs, while also giving assurance that our country "remains a pre

Ten years of Romania-Moldova strategic partnership; Romania's support - strictly conditioned on continuation of essential reforms

Romania's support for the Republic of Moldova, including financial assistance, will be further "conditioned" on Moldova's continuation of the "essential" reforms for its democratic development and its advancement on a European path, Romania's Foreign Affairs Ministry (MAE) says in a press statement released to mark the 10th anniversary of the bilateral strategic partnership between the two coun

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