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Can Moldova Stay on the Road to Europe MEMO POL I CY CAN MOLDOVA STAY ON THE ROAD TO EUROPE? Stanislav Secrieru SUMMARY In 2013 Russia hit Moldova hard, imposing Moldova is considered a success story of the European sanctions on wine exports and fuelling Union’s Eastern Partnership (EaP) initiative. In the four separatist rumblings in Transnistria and years since a pro-European coalition came to power in 2009, Gagauzia. But 2014 will be much worse. Moldova has become more pluralist and has experienced Russia wants to undermine the one remaining “success story” of the Eastern Partnership robust economic growth. The government has introduced (Georgia being a unique case). It is not clear reforms and has deepened Moldova’s relations with the whether Moldova can rely on Ukraine as a EU, completing a visa-free action plan and initialling an buffer against Russian pressure, which is Association Agreement (AA) with provisions for a Deep and expected to ratchet up sharply after the Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). At the start Sochi Olympics. Russia wants to change the Moldovan government at the elections due in of 2014, Moldova is one step away from progressing into a November 2014, or possibly even sooner; the more complex, more rewarding phase of relations with the Moldovan government wants to sign the key EU. Implementing the association agenda will spur economic EU agreements before then. growth and will multiply linkages with Moldova’s biggest trading partner, the EU. However, Moldova’s progress down Moldova is most fearful of moves against its estimated 300,000 migrant workers in the European path promises to be one of the main focuses Russia, and of existential escalation of the for intrigue in the region in 2014. Armenia and Ukraine have Transnistrian conflict towards a “civilised caved in to Russia’s coercive diplomacy, which means that divorce”. The ruling coalition is fragile, but the vitality of the EU’s eastern neighbourhood policy hinges has so far been able to resist Russian pressure, more than ever on Moldova’s success. Russia’s diplomatic with the exception of some very opaque business deals. The EU must prepare a menu victories in its own “near abroad” will likely encourage it of measures to help Chisinau resist the likely to increase its pressure on Moldova. And Moldova’s fragile range of Russian pressures in 2014. The EU governing pro-European coalition faces domestic challenges must act quickly in the summer of 2014 if the ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for November key Agreements are to be signed. Moldova 2014. must help itself by being more serious about corruption. The EU should also restrain current Romanian talk about “reunification”, Moldova’s track record which only destabilises the situation in Moldova. Almost 70 percent of Moldovans believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, according to opinion polls conducted in November 2013 by the Moldovan research officers accused of misbehaviour. A border police force organisation, the Institute for Public Policy. But while other was formed and the notoriously corrupt traffic police were unpopular governments in Eastern Europe have earned their replaced by police patrols equipped with traffic enforcement reputations through inaction, the Moldovan government’s cameras. Deaths from traffic accidents dropped by 30 public opinion problem is partly the downside of unpopular percent in the first five months of 2013. Public trust in the but necessary reforms. When the pro-European coalition police surged from just 10 percent in 2010 to 31 percent in came to power in 2009, Moldova’s economy was undergoing 2013. a sharp downturn: in 2009, GDP declined by 6.5 percent on the previous year. The country was also facing a dangerous The Ministry of Education has shut down some understaffed, budget disequilibrium, with a deficit of 6.3 percent of GDP. under-attended schools, which had represented a drain As a result of austerity measures under IMF supervision and on public funds. High school graduation exams have been tighter revenue collection, the budget deficit was cut to 2.1 reformed, by multiplying the number of observers, installing percent in 2012. The improved macroeconomic situation video cameras to supervise pupils, and instituting thorough laid the groundwork for Moldova’s economy to lift off. In the crosschecks of test papers. The reforms caused outcry past few years, it has registered some of the fastest growth among parents, students, and opposition parties, but the rates in the region: 7.1 percent in 2010, 6.4 percent in 2011, shadow networks that used to fix exam results have been CAN MOLDOVA STAY ON THE ROAD TO EUROPE? STAY CAN MOLDOVA and 8 percent in the first nine months of 2013, after a dip to significantly disrupted. The number of pass marks achieved 0.8 percent in 2012. in Moldova’s high school exams declined by 20 percent in 2013. Some of the factors behind Moldova’s economic recovery were external. Remittance flows, which made up 24 percent The Ministry of Justice increased remuneration, professional of GDP in 2012, continued to sustain domestic consumption. evaluation, and disciplinary responsibility for judges. Several International donors allocated €1.9 billion to Moldova in judges were demoted or suspended because of disciplinary 2011-2013. But the government deserves credit for attracting violations or accusations of corruption. However, much funds in exchange for reform and for implementing big more still needs to be done on justice reform, and stronger infrastructure projects. Parts of the national road system political will is needed to implement more thoroughgoing have already been repaired. Feasibility studies and tenders reforms. for other projects are almost completed, so more roads and irrigation systems will come on stream in 2014. These The picture would be incomplete without also noting projects will create new jobs and help the construction sector Moldova’s failures. The government’s disapproval ratings – the number of construction sites spiked by 50 percent in are not only the result of austerity and unpopular reform. The 2013. They will also have a lasting impact on the economy. authorities have not been successful in tackling pervasive Better roads will shorten the time for moving goods across corruption. Moldova’s score in Transparency International’s the country and irrigation systems will improve agricultural Corruption Perception Index actually dropped one point in performance, especially during dry summers. Exports are 2013. The country’s National Anticorruption Center (CNA) growing faster than imports. The government has improved has been reformed, and the newly established National the investment climate and its e-governance strategy has Integrity Commission (CNI) has been empowered to helped to limit bureaucratic hurdles. As a result, Moldova investigate conflicts of interest and the income declarations has climbed from 94th place in the World Bank’s Ease of of high public officials. But neither institution has lived up Doing Business Index in 2010 to 78th place in 2014. to expectations. CNA officers ignore high-level corruption and even initiate cases to intimidate political opponents. The improved business climate has attracted more foreign The embryonic CNI is under heavy political pressure. Its investors, who have encouraged Moldova’s gradual re- budget for 2014 has been reduced, and it seems there is industrialisation. German automotive component supplier no political will to beef it up. Moldova also wasted time on Dräxlmaier first moved to Moldova in 2007 and is now bogus reform of the General Prosecutor’s Office, while the expanding its production of spare parts for cars. Austrian Prosecutor General himself, Valeriu Zubco, cable maker Gebauer & Griller entered the Moldovan was embroiled in political controversy and was removed market in 2012, and by the end of 2014, the company will from office in 2013. Although the new Prosecutor General, www.ecfr.eu have invested €18 million in its production facilities in Corneliu Gurin, has promised serious reform, powerful the country. After 20 years of independence, Moldova has actors both inside and outside the institution oppose any finally begun to build a gas interconnector with Romania to real change. A blueprint for reform was presented in 2013, ease its dependence on gas imports from Russia and help but unless real steps are taken to make progress on its implement the EU’s Third Energy Package. implementation, it may remain only a declaration of intent. January 2014 On sectoral reforms, the visa-free action plan with the EU Moldova’s investment climate has improved, but foreign provided the leverage for the government to undertake investors still complain of harassment from tax authorities /93 the most drastic reform of the police in two decades. The and of vested political interests trying to push them out of R F institution was reorganised, salaries were increased, and the market. Even Dräxlmaier, Moldova’s top exporter in EC more disciplinary procedures were initiated against police 2012, has had trouble with the State Fiscal Inspectorate. 2 Greater deregulation and de-monopolisation would make Association Agreement, but now seeks to sign and ratify the investors feel more welcome. The government and the agreement before 2014’s parliamentary elections in order National Bank have failed to establish order in the banking to narrow down the PCRM’s options, should it manage to sector, an essential mainstay for any market economy. In reclaim power. The major internal risk for Moldova in 2014 the last four years, “raider attacks” against financial and is that the coalition will crumble again, opening the way for bank institutions have increased, while judges involved in early elections and a Communist return to government. sanctioning illegal share ownership transfers have escaped largely unpunished. The European Bank for Reconstruction In May 2013, the coalition leaders, former Prime Minister and Development has appealed to Moldovan authorities to Vlad Filat and former Speaker of Parliament Marian Lupu, prevent non-transparent share transactions in the country’s took a step back, and were replaced by two well-regarded biggest commercial bank, Moldova-Agroindbank.
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