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EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Stefan Fule pointed out at a final news conference that the EU-RM relations have become brisker lately. He handed in to Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat a list of conditions the republic is supposed to fulfill to achieve visa facilitation. He said the negotiations' ultimate goal is to provide for Republic of Moldova citizens a possibility to travel to European Union member countries freely.
The EU Commissioner talked about Moldova's striving for achieving an agreement on free trade with the European Union, which would provide for Moldovan people of business an access to a market of over 500 million consumers.
Stefan Fule assured the European Union will be further backing Moldova on its reform path, and remarked about the financial assistance of 500 million euros promised to Moldova for 2010-2013.
In the nearest future, the European Commission will delegate to Chisinau a fact-finding mission that will provide recommendations on further steps in the dialog on visa regime liberalization.
Vlad Filat offered an opinion that the mission should come possibly sooner, so as to let the Government use the summer months, too, for reform implementation.
Filat said, Moldova is a European state inhabited with European citizens, and "the visa regime liberalization will let us get rid of artificial barriers on our way towards unification of European citizens to let us come back into the European family of nations. This is a natural and irrevocable process".
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