Nicu Popescu Advanced Moldova’s EU Accession Talks and Regional Cooperation during Brussels visit

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova, Nicu Popescu, carried out an important working visit to Brussels on the eve of the European Council on December 14-15. During the visit, the Moldovan official had meetings with both European officials and his colleagues from the member states of the European Union, including Luminița Odobescu (Romania), Xavier Bettel (Luxembourg), Gabrielius Landsbergis (Lithuania), Margus Tsahkna (Estonia), Krišjānis Kariņš (Latvia), Juraj Blanár (Slovakia), and Anna Lührmann (Germany), as reported by TRIBUNA.

“As always when I am in Brussels, I had a meeting with Gert-Jan Koopman, the Director-General for Neighborhood and Enlargement of the EU, and his team. We discussed the European Commission’s recommendation regarding the opening of accession negotiations with the Republic of Moldova and the next steps in the accession process, with a focus on continuous reform in the judicial system and the de-oligarchization process. I also had meetings with Simon Mordue and Magdalena Grono, foreign policy advisers to the President of the European Council, Charles Michel.

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I also had the opportunity to meet again with my colleagues from the GUAM regional initiative – Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova. I discussed regional security, commercial-economic cooperation, and the accession process of candidate countries to the European Union with Ilia Darchiashvili, Dmytro Kuleba, and Jeyhun Bayramov.

This visit took place in the context of the European Commission’s recommendation to start accession negotiations with the European Union for the Republic of Moldova. The final decision in this regard will be made at the level of the heads of states and governments of the European Union at the European Council,” concluded Nicu Popescu.