In this week's briefing, RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak is drilling down on two issues: a damning rule-of-law assessment for Serbia and the latest Franco-German EU enlargement proposal.
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As EU moves to prioritise geopolitical needs over old merit-based approaches, the concern is that rushed membership for Ukraine and Albania could come at a cost.
Hungarian and Ukrainian diplomats reached a deal on Hungarian minority rights late on June 3, allowing Ukraine and Moldova to finally start de facto accession talks with the European Union later this month, after two years of Budapest vetoing this step under its previous government.
In this week's Wider Europe newsletter, Rikard Jozwiak drills down on two issues: Why the EU isn’t naming a Russia envoy and the upcoming EU-Moldova summit.
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Brussels is expected to propose opening the first cluster of EU membership negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova on June 16th.
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In her latest despatch from Washington, Jovana Djurovic dissects official State Department policy on the Balkans.
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Under a new proposal, accession countries would join the Union without an initial power of veto over foreign policy or otherwise unanimous decisions.
Moldovan leaders have called Russian dictator Vladimir Putin’s proposal to grant Russian citizenship to Transdniestria residents a threat and are considering action to prevent it, Reuters reports. The Transdniestria region broke away from Moldova in 1990, when the country was still a Soviet republic, and despite a brief conflict two years later, it now largely […]
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Just 525,100 tourists visited in 2025 (Picture: Alice Murphy)
Soviet relics, an underground wine city, and a self-ruling region that feels frozen in time.
This is what awaits in Moldova, a tiny country sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, consistently ranked as the least-visited in Europe.
It was also dubbed the world’s unhappiest place in a bestselling book in 2008.
But today, Moldova is…
A major military museum in the western German city of Koblenz is denying entry to nationals from 26 countries, causing tense scenes with some visitors who arrive with children.
Locuitorii municipiului Bălți sunt îndemnați să nu consume apa de la robinet, după ce analizele efectuate în unele sectoare ale orașului au indicat depășiri inadmisibile ale parametrilor privind mirosul și gustul. Anunțul a fost făcut de primarul Alexandr Petkov, care a precizat că probele prelevate de pe strada Strîi confirmă că apa din zona respectivă […]
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DNIESTER, MOLDOVA—According to a Moldpres report, a Scythian tomb dated to the third century b.c. […]
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While some events covered in our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week suggest that possible changes are afoot, other parts of the region seem stuck in the same rut.
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President Maia Sandu reiterated Moldova’s goal to sign the EU accession treaty by 2028.
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A secret spy exchange between Russia, Moldova, Poland, Romania and the US shows Moldova has finally joined the ‘select club’ of European intelligence services.
An Russian oligarch and top business executives are using A7, an influential payments company implicated a vast sanctions evasions scheme relying on a ruble-backed cryptocurrency, for their own transactions.
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The conviction of the once-powerful former tycoon Vladimir Plahotniuc is proof that Moldova’s judicial reform is providing results. The next test is making sure the system doesn’t drift back.
A Moldovan court has sentenced oligarch and former political tycoon Vladimir Plahotniuc to 19 years in prison in a decade-old bank fraud case known as "the theft of the century."
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After over six years on the run, Moldovan oligarch and former political leader Vladimir Plahotniuc has been handed a 19-year prison sentence for his role in a massive banking fraud widely.
Главные новости Молдовы и мира в новом выпуске NewsMaker!Темы выпуска:— Посольство РФ обвинило власти Молдовы в «двойных стандартах» из-за Гуцул— Спор между полицией и адвокатами семьи Людмилы Вартик. Кто оплатит эксгумацию?— Уголовное дело по факту запугивания женщины из ЛГБТ-сообщества— Рейсовые маршруты дешевеют. Сколько будет стоить 1 км?— Глава офиса Зеленского о том, может ли Украина…
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A momentous election spells change not just for Hungary but also for much of the Western Balkans, as our selection of Balkan Insight Premium stories this week highlights.
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Moldova is close to finishing the process of vetting all its judges and prosecutors after more than three decades of a kleptocratic, politically obedient judiciary – but the system is far from rebuilt yet.
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A Russian bombing of a Ukrainian hydropower plant caused petrol to leak into the Dniester river, a crucial source of water for Moldova – and while a clean-up is underway, fears of future attacks remain.
Europe and Central Asia’s governments are spending more than ever on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank rarely minces its words. Its spring economic update for Europe and Central Asia (ECA), published on April 8, delivered a bleak macroeconomic picture alongside a pointed verdict on industrial policy […]
Subsidising the past was originally…
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Court documents and interviews have revealed more about recruits from Moldova who were trained by Russian instructors at camps in Bosnia and Serbia to foment unrest, scout embassies and use military-grade drones.
One of Moldova’s main reasons for joining the European Union has always been security, and now Chisinau has indicated that it can also help the bloc with security issues, writes Politico. Moldova’s deputy prime minister for European affairs Cristina Gerasimov told Politico that Moldova’s EU membership is often described as a security guarantee for the […]
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Главные новости Молдовы и мира в новом выпуске NewsMaker!Темы выпуска:— Заключенного, сбежавшего из тюрьмы, нашли при помощи дронов— Удар по карману или вынужденная мера? Что думают горожане о повышении цен на проезд— Дизель превысил отметку 34 лея за литр— Чебан после обращения PAS в НАЦ: Пусть занимаются своим делом— На сколько подорожают абонементы на транспорт […]
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BIRN has located one of the alleged ringleaders of a group of Serbs accused of staging stunts in Paris and Berlin to whip up social tensions on behalf of Russia.
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From a political spying scandal to MAGA alignment and a brewing collision with the law, selection of BIRN Premium stories this week makes for an exciting read.
Listen, I have had my fair share of ‘pinch me' moments and seen enough breathtaking places to become jaded after traveling to nearly every single European country. Belarus, I'm still coming for you, but it might take a few years. From hanging monasteries in the mountains of Greece, perched atop free-standing rock pillars, to medieval …
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