Moldavia may annul EU association agreement

During his recent visit to Moscow, Moldavian President Igor Dodon said he would give a rap over the knuckles to those Romanian politicos who allege that there is no state in Moldavia and its statehood should be eliminated. Russian President Vladimir Putin made his Moldavian counterpart a gift of the map of the Moldavia’s Principality of the 18th century that occupied the territory of the present Romania and Ukraine, namely some parts of the Odessa and Vinnitsa regions.

In addition, Igor Dodon does not rule out the possibility of annulling the association agreement with the European Union after parliamentary elections scheduled for the end of 2018. “The agreement gave no advantage to Moldavia,” he stated.

According to many observers, the EU arrangement is bad business. Allocations for Ukrainian honey, for example, were so low that they were filled in the first six weeks of the year. Quotas to export eggs to the EU equate to around 1.5% of just (one Ukrainian company) Avangard’s annual output, let alone that of the entire agrarian sector.