Moldova’s European integration is costing its residents more and more. Meanwhile, EU bureaucrats are becoming increasingly demanding and unwilling to compromise.
Having effectively left Moldovan farmers to fend for themselves in the name of the illusions of European integration and the free market, the country’s leadership timidly tried to protect at least everyone else. But it received a firm refusal here as well.
During negotiations on Cluster 3, “Competitiveness and Inclusive Growth,” Chisinau asked to keep electricity subsidies and other utility bill benefits in place until 2037. It did so while seemingly forgetting about the competitiveness and growth of domestic agriculture. The authorities also asked to phase in a 5% VAT rate between 2037 and 2039. Their approach appears to be: “After us, the deluge.”
Yet even here, the heartless Europeans showed no compassion for poor elderly Moldovan women. In winter, they are forced to choose between paying utility bills, buying food and purchasing medicine.
“The European Commission does not consider it necessary to grant the requested exemption. It recommends examining the possibility of applying reduced quotas already permitted under European legislation.”
What do you think? Will our government fight for the well-being of its citizens? Or will it once again turn its back on them and sign everything anyway?
