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Stefan Fule: Moldova could serve as a model
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European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule has told this an EPP public hearing on EU-Moldova relations ahead of the EU-Moldova Cooperation Council on 15 June. He told his audience that Moldova was "the front runner in EU assistance in this part of the world."
According to the press release of the Delegation of the EU to Chisinau, the Commissioner said he was proud the EU's pledge of a €550 million assistance package for Moldova, made at the international donors' conference in March this year, would materialize in a few weeks with a €45 million programme "to foster economic activity outside Moldova's urban areas."
Stefan Fule described the Commission's recently deployed full-fledged fact-finding mission to Moldova as "an important milestone towards a deep and comprehensive free trade area", which amounts to "a deeper economic integration."
"I now expect the many Commission services involved in this assessment exercise to come up with so called ‘key recommendations' for Moldova to address before negotiations on a DCFTA can be launched," said Fule.
Visa-free travel is a key objective of EU-Moldova relations in the framework of the Eastern Partnership, he said adding that the Commission had prepared ground for the Cooperation Council to open a visa dialogue.
"This visa dialogue will allow us to examine together in a structured manner the conditions for visa-free travel of Moldovan citizens to the European Union. Moreover, in the regional context, this approach applied in the case of Moldova could serve as a model for other Eastern Partnership countries bearing in mind the specificity and progress of each country", said Commissioner Fule.
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