- Please find enclosed next issue of the Bulletin: Parliamentary Elections in Moldova and the Prospects for the Modernization of the State by Łukasz Adamski.

The parliamentary elections in Moldova brought victory for the political parties forming the current coalition: the Alliance for European Integration. It gives hope to speeding up modernization of the country. However, much depends on maintaining a cohesiveness within the pro-Western coalition and its ability to elect the president as well as on developing an internal political consensus on European integration of the country. The EU could support the reform process in Moldova by presenting a more attractive offer with benefits in the short-term perspective and by a simplification of the rules for granting aid. Reforms in Moldova might be better facilitated if increased controls over the movement of goods and people through the cordon with Transnistria and the Moldova-Ukraine border were introduced.

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