The president of the European Union has urged Moldova to reform its justice system and fight corruption, AP reported.
Herman van Rompuy said Wednesday that the EU will give Moldova ¤50 million ($70 million) to support reforms needed if the country (...)
Moldova's parliament on Thursday elected Marian Lupu, the leader of the Democratic party, as its speaker, hours after the Democrats agreed to join the ruling alliance.
The pro-Western Alliance for European Integration does not have enough votes in (...)
Moldova's parliament met Tuesday for the first time after inconclusive elections left one of Europe's poorest countries in political deadlock.
A month after the Nov. 28 ballot, lawmakers have failed to form a political alliance to lead the former (...)
A court in Moldova's breakaway Transdniestria region has sentenced a reporter critical of its government to 15 years jail on charges of treason, the separatist security forces said on Friday, according to Reuters.
Ernest Vardanian, a freelance (...)
Moldova's Parliament has decided that a referendum will be held Sept. 5 on whether to elect the country's president by popular vote, according to AP.
The decision was adopted late Wednesday by lawmakers from the pro-European alliance, which has (...)
Moldova's pro-Western ruling coalition today proposed Sept. 5 as the date for a referendum to decide how the state president should be elected, according to Reuters.
The ex-Soviet republic, one of Europe's poorest states, has been without a (...)
Moldova's pro-Western leadership is coming under increased pressure to call early parliamentary elections to help one of Europe's poorest countries out of a year-long political impasse which paralyses reform, according to Reuters.
The ex-Soviet (...)
Russia said on Friday it was
seeking clarification of "unexpected" remarks by a senior U.S.
defence official that the United States was considering Ukraine
as a place for stationing early warning radar systems, Reuters reported.
Alexander (...)
Russia told Moldova's new
western-leaning leadership today that it would not pull
its troops out of the breakaway Transdniestria region until a
peace deal with separatists was in place there, Reuters reported.
Moldova has said it would use a (...)
The opposition in ex-Soviet
Moldova accused the ruling Communist Party of misusing the media
and rigging this week's parliamentary election, and urged voters
to oust what it said was the last communist "regime" in Europe, Reuters (...)
The death toll from severe flooding in Ukraine climbed to 30 on Thursday, but water levels after days of inundation finally were falling at some locations, AP quoted a senior government official as saying.
Most of the victims - 23 - drowned, while (...)