- No matter who wins mayoralty, City Hall’s work will be hindered by battles between parties, Antoniţa Fonari pentru Info-Prim Neo, 17 June 2011, 11:42
- Protection of Personal Data within the Dialogue on Visa Liberalization and the Negotiation of the Association Agreement between the R. of Moldova and the EU, Bogdan Manolea, Centrul Român de Politici Europene/Fundaţia Soros-Moldova, 10 June 2011, 16:01
- EU-Moldova Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area: a springboard to modernization or a road to ruin?, Alex OPRUNENCO, Centrul Analitic Independent "EXPERT-GRUP", 10 May 2011, 12:30
- The Council of Europe, the Communists and a New Referendum, Denis CENUSA, 4 March 2011, 11:06
- Coalition 2010, Irina Severin, 26 January 2011, 9:42
- The "shy" regret of Chisinau concerning the events in Belarus, Denis CENUSA, 26 January 2011, 9:41
Parties-Phantoms, Parties - State Institutions, Parties - State Enterprises
20 parties have registered in the current election campaign. Many people say it is a too big number for such a small country as Moldova. At the same time, much more parties could take part in the election campaign.
Activists launch Moldova’s first ‘Space Camp’ © Susan Coughtrie
Romanian passports - entering the EU through the back door
- "Moldova Azi" information portal is changing its format and editorial content, Centrul pentru Jurnalism Independent, 8 August 2011, 15:19
- Moldovan students queue up to apply for scholarships in Romania, Info-Prim Neo, 4 August 2011, 13:44
- Ukrainian scholarships not very popular in Moldova, Info-Prim Neo, 2 August 2011, 14:58
- Kent Larson: USAID will always support process of Moldova democratization, INFOTAG, 1 August 2011, 13:42
- Parliament sets up new commission - for checking civil servants' property and incomes, INFOTAG, 29 July 2011, 9:00
- Scandal in Moldovan parliament over deputies' relatives, INFOTAG, 29 July 2011, 9:00
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According to the author of the post from „Der Spiegel", Benjamin Bidder, Romania's president Traian Basescu wants to increase his country's population and is using an odd means to do so. He is generously bestowing hundreds of thousands of romanian passports on impoverished moldovans - the would-be European Union citizens for whom the passport means potential employment as a day laborer somewhere between Rome and Lisbon.
German daily writes that Traian Basescu dreams of the ressurection of "Greater Romania" with the borderes that existed in 1940, which also included Moldova. To speed up the dream of "a future together", romanian president agreed to increase the number of naturalizations that take place each month to 10,000 this year and opened two new consulates in the provincial cities of Balti in the north and Cahul in the south on Friday - at the EU's expense, „Der Spiegel" states.
„Der Spiegel" observed that Moldova's new government is not averse to these romanian advances and states that of the 53 members of the governing coalition, 9 have a second passport that is Romanian and 11 others have applied for one. And with Mihai Ghimpu as acting president of Moldova presently there is a "unionist" as head of state.
However - „Der Spiegel" states - the majority of moldovans aren't attracted by the prospect of reunification with Romania, which, after Bulgaria, is the second-poorest EU member state.
„Moldovans want Europe, not Romania", the article's author notes citing the polls, according to which two-thirds want to be part of the EU, but only 2 percent self-identify as Romanian.
