Moldova pushes for EU accession, but Brussels hesitates to decouple Ukraine

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Moldova pushes for EU accession, but Brussels hesitates to decouple Ukraine  The EU and Moldova will discuss economic growth and security at their first bilateral summit in Chisinau this Friday. The Moldovan president Maia Sandu will meet EU Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the EU Council, António Costa.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/03/moldova-pushes-for-eu-accession-but-brussels-hesitates-to-decouple-ukraine  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Moldova is pushing hard to join the EU.

00:12The government intends to take advantage of the bilateral summit with the European Union

00:16scheduled for this Friday, to emphasise its progress made in recent years on access requirements.

00:23Yet, some MEPs are hesitant to split the enlargement process and leave Ukraine lagging behind.

00:30Others, on the other hand, support a faster expansion of the bloc.

00:36Integrating the Republic of Moldova into the EU would be a smaller effort for the European

00:41Union than the integration of larger countries.

00:45So, Moldova is a smaller country, so with our support there, we can achieve a lot.

00:54Amounts which for the European Union are not necessarily very significant, matter a lot

00:59and they can make a big difference in the Republic of Moldova.

01:03The EU is to present the details of its three-year growth plan, worth 1.9 billion euros, as a support

01:10initiative for Moldova.

01:12The Eastern European country has been suffering systematic hybrid attacks by Russia, in a bid

01:17to derail its path to join the Union.

01:21Brussels is also aware that the Moldovan public opinion is divided between pro-Western orientations

01:27and Russian-orientated sympathies.

01:31The Russian-speaking minority and enterprises in the so-called Transnistrian region benefit

01:36from European integration.

01:38More than 70 percent of the exports from the so-called Transnistrian region go into the

01:44European market.

01:45So I think Russia will continue to try to destabilize, but I think people in Moldova will stay calm.

01:51Moldova applied for EU membership in March 2022 and became a candidate in June that year.

01:58Succession negotiations started in June 2024.

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