Moldova is a leader in the European integration negotiations due to the efforts taken by the Moldovan government. The head of the Polish foreign affairs commission, Andrzej Halicki, made this statement today at a roundtable focused on the priorities of Poland’s Presidency of the European Union’s Council.
Andrzej Halicki said that the first stage of the negotiations on a visa free regime between Moldova and the EU is underway via the implementation of biometric passports. “Within the second stage, the cancellation of visas for Moldovan citizens would be possible. This will serve as the clearest signal on Moldova’s EU integration path,” the Polish official said.
At the same time, Andrzej Halicki reckons that “without settling the Transnistrian issue, Moldova cannot swiftly advance on its European integration path”, noting that “the answer to this solution will not be found in the current negotiating format, but in the relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation. This is the second decade of the EU’s expansion, after the first one in the 1990s. You have a clear prospect of succeeding in the second expansion wave,” the Polish official concluded.
The chairman of Moldova’s parliamentary commission for foreign policy and European integration, Igor Corman, said that a package of laws regarding the liberalization of the visa regime, among which the reform of the border services and of some state institutions, is to be completed and adopted this autumn, so that the new provisions be enforced starting from 2012.
Andrzej Halicki is paying a visit to Chisinau to participate in the first meeting of the Moldovan-Polish Parliamentary Assembly’s bureau, which he co-heads. The Parliamentary Assembly was founded on 25 July 2011.
Moldpres (Moldova)
Filed under: Europe Tagged: ENPI, EU, Europe, European Union, Moldova
