Moldova: PM insists ex-Soviet republic wants to join EU
BUCHAREST, Romania — Moldova’s prime minister on Wednesday reacted angrily to a suggestion by the nation’s president that the ex-Soviet republic may shelve a trade pact with the European Union.
President Igor Dodon, speaking in Moscow on Tuesday, denounced a pact Moldova signed with the EU in 2014. He says a new government could annul it after 2018 parliamentary elections.
In a statement to The Associated Press, however, Premier Pavel Filip said Moldova’s constitution did not allow the president “to announce or take such decisions,” which he called “pure, political rhetoric.”
Filip said his pro-European government would “not accept any intervention,” from Dodon about a matter outside the president’s authority.