NThere are still final dates to be clarified, but Moldovan President Maia Sandu is expected to attend talks in Berlin very soon, possibly next Friday. She is currently traveling around Europe to find out how the capital cities feel about their country’s EU membership application. At the beginning of March, the Republic of Moldova, following the example of Ukraine and Georgia, submitted a corresponding request to the European Union. In Chisinau, no one has any illusions about how difficult this path is. The application was made primarily because the decisions in Kyiv and Tbilisi had raised corresponding expectations among the electorate of the decidedly pro-European Moldovan government.
The good news that Sandu could bring to Berlin as things stand at present concerns a relaxation in the relationship between the government in Chișinău and those in power in Transnistria, a part of the country that has seceded since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Under the pressure of the war in Ukraine, Moldova and the Transnistrian leadership in Tiraspol have come closer. Questions on which no agreement could be reached for years are now apparently on the verge of a solution.