It is expected that the European Council (EC) will make a decision at the end of this week on the start of negotiations on the accession of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to the European Union. A day before the Council, the European Parliament will vote on a new resolution asking the EC to approve the start of accession negotiations with the two states at a meeting on December 14-15.

“We, the European Parliament, have a clear, unified position in support of the start of negotiations on the accession of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine to the European Union. We were the first European institution to ask to start accession negotiations with the two countries by the end of this year. I have repeated this request several times this year. Recently, in a resolution initiated by me and voted by an overwhelming majority at the plenary session of the European Parliament in October (448 votes for, 45 against and 43 abstentions), I asked the European Council to take a decision by the end of the year on the start of accession negotiations with the Republic of Moldova . In addition, this week, on Wednesday, at the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, we will vote for a new resolution, with which we again ask the European Council to approve the beginning of accession at the meeting on December 14-15. negotiations with the two states,” liberal MEP Siegfried Muresan told HotNews.ro.

Muresan, who is also the president of the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with the Republic of Moldova, claims that the authorities in Chisinau “over the past two years have made impressive progress in the reforms necessary for European integration.”

“At the end of November in Chisinau, we met with President Maya Sandu, with Prime Minister Dorin Recan, with ministers and colleagues from the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova. I met a pro-European political majority, solid, united, with a very well-laid plan to start accession negotiations.

That’s why I say: this is a favorable moment from the point of view of the enlargement and strengthening of the European Union, which we should not miss,” said Siegfried Muresan.

The Romanian MEP claims that “the more stable and reformed Moldova and Ukraine are, the safer we are inside the EU, and the process of accession to the European Union is the best tool with which to reform and modernize a state that is a neighbor of the EU. “.

“The positive decision of the European Council at the end of this week will also send a clear signal that the European future of the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine is guaranteed and that the influence of the Russian Federation in the region is decreasing,” – Siegfried Muresan. also stated for HotNews.ro