Are high energy prices and negative growth killing Moldova’s European future? 💡
President Maia Sandu’s PAS Party lacks obvious coalition partners, Russian-backed actors are circling, and vote-buying operations are still rife. The risks at this election are real.
Next week, Moldovans head to the polls for parliamentary elections. The country is facing unprecedented challenges. Melania Parzonka, coordinator of @chrussiaeurasia.bsky.social, takes stock of the situation and sheds light on the EU accession perspectives.
Ukraine's parliament is currently discussing easing wartime restrictions on domestic arms exports.
Opening Ukraine’s defence industry would permit further cooperation with the EU and allow the country’s economy to directly benefit from European rearmament, writes @melaniap.bsky.social in POLITICO.
Is it time for Ukraine to become an arms exporter? @melaniap.bsky.social finds that counterintuitively, there are areas of Ukraine's defence industry with surplus capacity - and they're making things Europe needs.
"Messaging from the US aligns well with Russian propaganda, which also works to discredit civil society and portray NGOs as instruments of foreign control", writes @melaniap.bsky.social for @platformraam.nl in her analysis of Russian interference ahead of Moldova's upcoming parliamentary election.
