Moldovan parliament speaker meets European commissioner

Chisinau, 26 September /MOLDPRES/ - Parliament Speaker Andrian Candu has had a meeting with European Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn, on a visit to Moldova, the parliament’s communication and public relations department has reported.   

At the meeting, Andrian Candu said that the Roadmap on priority reforms’ agenda represented an efficient instrument of mobilization and inter-institutional cooperation, and had contributed to synchronizing the agenda between the parliament and government. At the same time, the speaker referred to priorities of governance and the legislative ones, which result from the punctual and sectoral implementation of the Association Agreement. It is about the agreeing upon a new programme with IMF, full adoption of the financial and banking package and legislative amendments dealing with the consolidation of the energy sector.   

”On the immediately next period, we will focus our efforts to fulfill all preconditions agreed upon with IMF, sign a new programme and resume the disbursements from the budgetary support programmes. During this year, we have adopted a string of important legislative packages concerning the justice reform and fighting corruption; now, they are to be implemented correctly, and the parliament is to exercise the parliamentary control and assess their enforcement,” Andrian Candu said.   

The speaker also said that the parliament and government would hold a working meeting in early next October, to revise the actions due to be implemented and which come from the European integration agenda, as well as to approve a schedule of parliamentary hearings, in order to evaluate the degree of implementation of the packages of laws passed by the parliament.    

For his part, Johannes Hahn reiterated the EU’s firm determination to back Moldova’s concrete efforts of European integration, and encouraged the pressing ahead with the reforms in a sustained pace. The European commissioner welcomed the fulfillment of the commitments provided for in the Roadmap and urged the authorities to punctually enforce them.

“It is important to focus on the implementation of the commitments provided for in the Roadmap in sectors. EU expects more concrete results from Moldova, so that the citizens really feel the effects of these efforts,” the EU commissioner stressed.  

Other subjects tackled at the meeting dealt with diversifying the range of Moldovan products meant for export to the EU market by turning to good account the export quotas provided for in the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, developing projects on energy inter-connection. The officials exchanged opinions on developments in the dialogue with the Transnistrian region and Gagauzia, as well as the pre-electoral context in Moldova.  

(Editor L. Alcaza)