Marcel Spătari: Economic growth is possible if state institutions function properly and the private sector feels secure

We must achieve visible social, economic and legal results on the road to the EU, not after the triumphant date of accession

Marina Soloviova: Annual economic growth rates of 2–3 per cent are insufficient to achieve a real economic leap

Cristina Ciubotaru: The EU is giving justice reform a polite diplomatic pat on the back, smoothly avoiding any awkward situations

Alexandru Flenchea: The citizens of the Transnistrian region also wish to join the European Union, just like most of those living on the right bank of the Nistru River

Cristina Lesnic: The structures in the Transnistrian region depend to a large extent on the impetus – the catalyst – coming from the Russian Federation

Nicolae Panfil: I hope that the new Parliament will succeed in being more inclusive

Tatiana Cojocari: If you want to emerge victorious from this hybrid war, you need a legal framework that allows for the prevention and punishment of external interference

Adrian Ermurachi: The European Commission’s recommendation is to review the public sector pay model to make it more competitive with the private sector

Vadim Vieru: National human rights institutions are active, but they depend too much on external funding, which makes them vulnerable

Nadine Gogu: Propaganda is now done more on the internet and less on TV, because propaganda has migrated to the online sphere

In this election campaign, representatives of state institutions should come up with a revised social contract between the state and the citizens

Victor Juc: Ukraine has a vital interest that a pro-European government continues in Moldova after the autumn elections

Radu Hossu: Russia is at war with Romania and the Republic of Moldova, but it is a hybrid war shaped on the KGB methods of the 1960s-70s

Serghei Gerasymiuk: We are fortunate that Bucharest, Chisinau, and Kyiv have been on the same side of history so far

Sergiu Tofilat: We need electricity interconnection lines with Romania

Voice of experts// Moldovan citizens with the right to vote have said very clearly: we need Bucharest and Bucharest needs us

Ion Chicu: Romanian investment would be the strongest and most sustainable bridge across the Prut

Deputy Radu Marian: “Budget + Plus” is just a small part of what could follow if the country continues on its European path

Marina Soloviova: To obtain higher economic growth, we should avoid investing money in unproductive populist projects

Alexandru Bujorean: It would be fair if EU money went to developing public infrastructure and empowering local public administrations

Liliana Palihovici: For the state to be able to provide social assistance, it must have economic growth

Cristina Gherasimov: It is essential to have genuinely pro-European forces in government, which come to power exclusively through the honest vote of the people

The energy crisis, a stage in the Kremlin’s preparations for the parliamentary elections in Moldova

The government was obliged to ensure that the regime in Tiraspol is put in a position to accept market realities

People in the Transnistrian region should also be able to get information from alternative sources

Russia’s artificial energy crisis is a pressure mechanism through which Moscow is trying to destabilize Moldova

Internal consolidation means overhauling misconceptions about the exclusivity of a single governing party

It will be regrettable if we do not understand how narrow and short this window of opportunity towards the EU is

Nadine Gogu: The oligarchs are still present online, but they are not as visible on classic television

Stas Madan: We have pretty good strategy documents, but we have limited administrative capacity to implement them

Cristina Ciubotaru: The problem of judicial vetting - it is not independent from politics and does not inspire confidence

Moldova must dare to come up with solutions and proposals as creative as possible in its negotiations’ approach with the EU

There is a risk of setting a dangerous precedent, and if the government changes, these tools will work against independent media

Romania insists that the Republic of Moldova should be included in the process of Ukraine’s reconstruction

I’ve always had a lot of respect for investigative journalists who don’t bend towards power

Marin Gherman: It’s hard to build a logistics for the reconstruction works in Ukraine because missiles can fall and destroy everything you’ve built

Collective expert interview: The justice chapter should be a priority, together with the security, political, social and economic issues

INTERVIEW// Liliana Palihovici: The EC report draws attention to the discrepancy between the offer of the education system and the demands of the labour market

The pre-vetting selected candidates strongly suspected of political connections, which generates a lack of trust

Natalia Albu: "With the intensification of Russian military actions in Ukraine, I don't think that Russia's agenda for the Republic of Moldova has disappeared"

It is very important for the government to produce results in the European integration process

Our approach is to modernize the army and not to increase the personnel or technical ceiling

The Moldovan army has mobility, but what needs to be developed is the enemy contact fire capability

INTERVIEW// Vladimir Socor, foreign policy analyst, Jamestown Foundation: „Russia will not invade Ukraine, and if it does make a minor incursion, that will aim at Ukraine’s domestic policy”

INTERVIEW// Cornelia Cozonac: I believed then Moldova will develop very quickly and move at the same pace as the Baltic states

INTERVIEW// Iulian CIocan: I didn

INTERVIEW// Vasile Soimaru: We hoped to get rid of the Soviet power, but this did not happen because the ‘Empire’ was in us

INTERVIEW// Iulian Fota: Russian troops in the Transnistrian region are relevant only to the Republic of Moldova

INTERVIEW// Leonid Litra: „The increase of the Russian presence in the Black Sea is guaranteed in the coming years”

Pirkka Tapiola, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova: “The country passed through periods of political instability and crisis. This has forced us also to look at the situation with more prudence”

Veaceslav Platon, about the US investigation over the theft from BEM, Vlad Plahotniuc’s role in banking frauds and Mihail Gofman’s disclosures

Doug Squires, anti-corruption expert in US: "Anyone who puts money in pocket illegally, hurts the society"

Maia Sandu: “The interest in reforms of the current governance is very low”

Pirkka Tapiola, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova: “There is no real political will to reform Justice sector”

Minister of Education Maia Sandu, about the conviction of ex chief of finance, Kroll report, 2015 Baccalaureate, and corruption in Education

Daniel Morar, former head of the Romanian National Anticorruption Division, about the fight against highly corrupt: “If there is no internal political will, you can’t do anything”