2023-05-31 22:22:05
The Moldovan and European flags adorn the facade of the seat of the government of Moldova, in Chisinau, on May 31. Vadim Ghirda/AP
All the continent’s leaders have been invited, except Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko. A symbolic as well as strategic choice.
Correspondent in Brussels
The legitimacy of the European Political Community (EPC), this “geopolitical laboratoryWanted by Emmanuel Macron, lip serviced by some European leaders, strongly supported by London, has not finished being questioned. But she tries to put down roots. And it is at Mimi Castle near Chisinau, capital of Moldova, that the second meeting of this CPE is being held this Thursday, after that of Prague in October 2022. Two others are already scheduled: in Granada in October next, and in the UK in a year.
The choice of Moldova is eminently symbolic. This country of 2.6 million inhabitants, a former Soviet republic ruled since 2020 by a pro-European government, has been the subject of massive destabilization operations on the part of Russia since it gave its support to l’Ukraine and embarked on the long and difficult journey of EU membership. “We don’t want to be on the periphery of Europe anymore“, declared…
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