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Accession Of Moldova To The European Union
The accession of Moldova to the European Union (EU) is on the current agenda for Future enlargement of the European Union, future enlargement of the EU. Following an application by Moldova in March 2022, Moldova was officially granted candidate status by the EU on 22 June 2022. Moldova set a target date of 2030 for EU Accession. On 14 December 2023, the European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Moldova. It is one of nine current EU candidate countries, together with Accession of Albania to the European Union, Albania, Accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the European Union, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Accession of Georgia to the European Union, Georgia, Accession of Montenegro to the European Union, Montenegro, Accession of North Macedonia to the European Union, North Macedonia, Accession of Serbia to the European Union, Serbia, Accession of Turkey to the European Union, Turkey and Accession of Ukraine to the European Union, Ukraine. Accession negotiations of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moldova
Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a Landlocked country, landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The List of states with limited recognition, unrecognised breakaway state of Transnistria lies across the Dniester river on the country's eastern border with Ukraine. Moldova is a Unitary state, unitary Parliamentary system, parliamentary Representative democracy, representative democratic republic with its capital in Chișinău, the country's largest city and main cultural and commercial centre. Most of Moldovan territory was a part of the Principality of Moldavia from the 14th century until 1812, when it was Treaty of Bucharest (1812), ceded to the Russian Empire by the Ottoman Empire (to which Moldavia was a Vassal and tributary states of the Ottoman Empire, vassal state) and became known as Bessarabia. In 1856, southern Bessarabia was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Accession Of Turkey To The European Union
Turkey is negotiating its accession to the European Union (EU) as a member state, following its application to become a full member of the European Economic Community (EEC), the predecessor of the EU, on 14 April 1987. After the ten founding members in 1949, Turkey became one of the first new members (Member states of the Council of Europe, the 13th member) of the Council of Europe in 1950. The country became an Ankara Agreement, associate member of the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1963 and was an Western European Union#Associate members, associate member of the Western European Union from 1992 to its end in 2011. Turkey signed a European Union–Turkey Customs Union, Customs Union agreement with the EU in 1995 and was officially recognised as a candidate for full membership on 12 December 1999, at the Helsinki summit of the European Council. Negotiations for full membership were started on 3 October 2005. Progress was slow: out of the 35 chapters necessary to complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Commissioner For Neighbourhood And Enlargement
The Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement is the member of the European Commission in charge of overseeing the accession process of prospective new member states and relations with those bordering the European Union (EU). The present commissioner, since December 2024, is Marta Kos. Currently there are eight candidate countries, namely Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Two countries are recognised as potential candidates, namely Georgia and Kosovo. Candidate status was most recently granted to Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 2022, and a so-called "European Perspective" recognising a country as a potential candidate to Georgia in June 2022. Neighbourhood Policy is directed towards the western Balkans, those countries on the EU's eastern borders, often referred to as the Eastern Partnership or the accession trio, and on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, referred to as the Southern Neighbourhood and o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Commission
The European Commission (EC) is the primary Executive (government), executive arm of the European Union (EU). It operates as a cabinet government, with a number of European Commissioner, members of the Commission (directorial system, informally known as "commissioners") corresponding to two thirds of the number of Member state of the European Union, member states, unless the European Council, acting unanimously, decides to alter this number. The current number of commissioners is 27, including the president. It includes an administrative body of about 32,000 European civil servants. The commission is divided into departments known as Directorate-General, Directorates-General (DGs) that can be likened to departments or Ministry (government department), ministries each headed by a director-general who is responsible to a commissioner. Currently, there is one member per European Union member state, member state, but members are bound by their oath of office to represent the genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicu Popescu
Nicolae "Nicu" Popescu (born 25 April 1981) is a Moldovan diplomat, author, and politician, who served as Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration (Moldova), Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of Moldova from 6 August 2021 until 26 January 2024 in the Gavrilita and then Recean cabinets. He was also Moldova's Foreign Minister from 11 June to 14 November 2019 in the Sandu Cabinet. He is now a distinguished fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and visiting professor at Sciences Po-Paris. With Tiago Antunes, former state secretary for EU affairs in Portugal, he currently co-chairs an ECFR task force on 'lessons-learned' from the war in Ukraine consisting of several European foreign policy personalities. Biography Popescu holds a PhD and MA in International Relations from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. He also holds a BA from Moscow State Institute of International Relations obtained in 2002. Think-tank researcher From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Foreign Affairs And European Integration (Moldova)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs () is one of the fourteen ministries of the Government of Moldova. Pre-history The ministry was established on 1 February 1944, as the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Moldavian SSR. It would later be renamed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the MSSR on 27 March 1946. He following have served as the foreign ministers of the Moldavian SSR: *Gherasim Rudi (12 July 1944 – 19 July 1946) * Alexandru Diordiță (23 January 1958 – 15 April 1970) *Petru Pascari (24 April 1970 – 1 August 1976) * Semion Grossu (1 September 1976 – 31 December 1980) * Ion Ustian (31 December 1980 – 29 December 1981) * Petru Comendant (29 December 1981 – 24 May 1990) The Council of People's Commissars in subsequent decades, exercised leadership in the MSSR's foreign relations with foreign nations. At the same time, the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs was often concurrent with the post of Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Gavrilița
Natalia Gavrilița (; born 21 September 1977) is a Moldovan economist and politician who served as prime minister of Moldova from 2021 until her resignation in February 2023 after failure to get her reform package enacted.Ukraine Loses an Ally After Warning That Putin Planned to 'Destroy' Moldova Newsweek, 10 February 2023. Gavrilița had been previously proposed as prime minister by Maia Sandu in February 2021, but was rejected by the Party of Socialists of the Republic of Moldova, PSRM-Șor Party, Șor parliamentary majority. She was proposed once again in August 2021, following the 2021 Moldovan parliamentary election, 2021 parliamentary election, and was approved along with her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Grosu
Igor Grosu (born 30 November 1972) is a Moldova, Moldovan politician who is the President of the Moldovan Parliament, President of the Parliament of Moldova since 29 July 2021. He has been a member of the Parliament of Moldova, Moldovan Parliament since March 2019. Grosu has been the leader (at first acting leader) of the Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) since 9 December 2020. Career Igor Grosu became the Deputy Minister of Education of Moldova under Ministry of Education and Research (Moldova), Minister of Education, Maia Sandu. In August 2015, the Prime Minister of Moldova, Valeriu Streleț, appointed Grosu as the Prime Minister's principal consultant for Science, Education, Health Policies and Social Protection. The next Acting Prime Minister, Gheorghe Brega, dismissed Grosu a few months after he was appointed. When Maia Sandu founded the Party of Action and Solidarity, Action and Solidarity Party (PAS) in 2015-2016, Grosu joined as a founder-member of the party and beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maia Sandu
Maia Sandu (; born 24 May 1972) is a Moldovan politician who is serving as the sixth president of Moldova since 2020. She is the founder and former leader of the Party of Action and Solidarity and was Prime Minister of Moldova, prime minister of Moldova from 8 June 2019 until 14 November 2019, when her government collapsed after a vote of no-confidence. Sandu was Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (Moldova), minister of education from 2012 to 2015 and member of the parliament of Moldova from 2014 to 2015, and again in 2019. Sandu was elected president of Moldova in a landslide victory during the 2020 Moldovan presidential election. The first female president of Moldova, Sandu is a strong supporter of the accession of Moldova to the European Union, overseeing Moldova's granting of candidate status, and is widely considered "Western world, pro-Western". She has criticised and opposed Russia's invasion of Ukraine and supported subsequent steps to reduce Moldova's economic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Casualties of the Russo-Ukrainian War, military casualties and tens of thousands of Ukrainian Attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, civilian casualties. As of 2025, Russian troops Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupy about 20% of Ukraine. From a population of 41 million, about 8 million Ukrainians had been internally displaced and more than 8.2 million Ukrainian refugee crisis, had fled the country by April 2023, creating Europe's List of largest refugee crises, largest refugee crisis since World War II. In late 2021, Russia Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, massed troops near Ukraine's borders and December 2021 Russian ultimatum to NATO, issued demands to the Western world, West i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights
Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered inherent and inalienable, meaning they belong to every individual simply by virtue of being human, regardless of characteristics like nationality, ethnicity, religion, or socio-economic status. They encompass a broad range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, such as the right to life, freedom of expression, protection against enslavement, and right to education. The modern concept of human rights gained significant prominence after World War II, particularly in response to the atrocities of the Holocaust, leading to the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. This document outlined a comprehensive framework of rights that countries are encouraged t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democracy
Democracy (from , ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people or the population of a state. Under a minimalist definition of democracy, rulers are elected through competitive Election, elections while more expansive or maximalist definitions link democracy to guarantees of civil liberties and human rights in addition to competitive elections. In a direct democracy, the people have the direct authority to Deliberation, deliberate and decide legislation. In a representative democracy, the people choose governing officials through elections to do so. The definition of "the people" and the ways authority is shared among them or delegated by them have changed over time and at varying rates in different countries. Features of democracy oftentimes include freedom of assembly, freedom of association, association, personal property, freedom of religion and freedom of speech, speech, citizenship, consent of the governe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
