Thread by @DionisCenusa

#Moldova: The breakaway region of Moldova opposes the constitutional authorities' decision to apply for EU candidate status. His underlying argument is that Moldova will lose its sovereignty to the West. In real terms, joining the EU implies the delegation of some powers to ⤵️

https://twitter.com/DionisCenusa/status/1499418582953955335

supranational authorities (the EU institutions). However, this is still a futuristic prospect. However, the separatist regime decided to take advantage of the document presented to the EU, but also the advance of the Russian forces (in Odessa), to put back on the table its ⤵️

demand for recognition of its independence from Moldova. In this sense, they supposedly proposed to Chisinau to sign a "bilateral interstate agreement" that would formalize the separation. The Moldovan authorities were taken by surprise. No response was given to the demands ⤵️

of the separatists. The decision on EU candidate status was rather precipitated by local political calculations (explained in yesterday's tweets) and external circumstances (a similar application to the EU signed by Georgia). With or without such a request, Moldova has been in ⤵️

a process of European integration that is deepening, in which the breakaway region was also involved in some way. Now, the Moldovan authorities triggered another unnecessary problem in addition to 3 crises it faces simultaneously (Covid 19, energy crisis and the refugees' flow).