An EU-Armenia summit will be held in Yerevan on May 4-5, where the sides will discuss deepening bilateral cooperation, regional security and key international challenges. This will be the first bilateral summit in the history of Armenia-EU relations and is expected to give a new impetus to the development of strategic partnership between the sides. Observers and international media have already described the upcoming event as “historic”.
The Republic of Moldova now has a roadmap, a GIS database and a set of technical tools to bring the Emerald Network in line with Natura 2000 standards, developed under the first LIFE project implemented in the country.
The implementation of projects within the framework of European Territorial Cooperation Groups (ETCGs) will be possible only with the approval of the government. Local authorities will not be able to make such decisions on their own. This was stated by the vice-chairman of the parliamentary commission for public administration and regional development, Larisa Volokh.
From April 28, 2014 to April 20, 2026, more than 2.7 million Moldovans took advantage of the visa-free regime for short-term travel to the Schengen area, making almost 21 million trips to the EU in these 12 years.
Moldova is willing to share its experience of European integration with Bosnia and Herzegovina, including the implementation of institutional reforms, reiterating the course of deepening cooperation with the states from the region that aspire to join the European Union.
Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Cristina Gerasimov is on a visit to Brussels to discuss with European officials the course of the negotiation process and the European agenda in general.
The Moldovan authorities plan to implement a system of job exchange with the European Union countries, which will allow citizens to get access to job offers abroad, and European employers – to candidates and vacancies on the Moldovan market.
Starting from this year in Moldova, all diploma theses will be compulsorily checked with the help of a unified software to detect plagiarism. This was announced by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Research, Adriana Cazacu-Cigae.
Moldova will implement a strategy to counteract climate disasters. The main goal is to minimize the economic damage, which has exceeded 23 billion lei in the last 15 years alone, and to create a modern system of warning the population about impending threats.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu, who is in Kiev, has spoken in favor of the earliest possible official opening of negotiations on Moldova’s and Ukraine’s membership in the European Union. At a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, she emphasized that both Chisinau and Kiev had fully met all the necessary conditions for the transition to this stage.
