Leonard Artur HORVATH
Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj Napoca, Romania (1)
Ioan-Claudiu PĂDUREAN
State University of Moldova (2)
| Abstract: | The European Union has announced that Ukraine and Moldova have been granted candidate status. This announcement, together with the solidarity shown so far by EU countries, opens new prospects for the economies of the two candidate countries, which hope that the accession process will be speeded up and that they will surpass the countries of the Western Balkans, which have started accession negotiations but have made only modest progress on the way to membership. There is also hope for Georgia, where civil society pressure and large street protests have prompted the pro-Russian oligarchic government to abandon a package of Kremlin-inspired laws that is accelerating Russia’s transformation from an autocratic regime to an increasingly harsh dictatorship. |
| Keywords: | Moldova; Ukraine; economy; politic; European Union |
| Contact details of the authors: | E-mail: leonard.horvath@econ.ubbcluj.ro (1) claudiu.paduren@clujtoday.ro (2) |
| Institutional affiliation of the authors: | Babeș Bolyai University, Department of International Studies and Contemporary History and Department of Economic Politics (1) State University Moldavia, Department of Romanian and Universal History&Archeology (2) |
| Institutions address: | Mihail Kogalniceanu street, No. 1, room 307, Cluj Napoca, Romania (1) Alexei Mateevici street, No. 60, Chisinau, Moldavia (2) |