Moldova.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
"The constitutional reform should be implemented in Moldova in a calm and balanced way," the leader of the Democratic Party and presidential hopeful Marian Lupu told a news conference on Dec. 2. Commenting on acting President Mihai Ghimpu's recent initiative to set up a special commission in charge of drafting a bill amending the constitution, Lupu said that "the initiative...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
For the first time in a decade, Moldovan leaders held official celebrations in Chisinau on Romania's National Day and renewed calls for closer ties between the two countries, which share a common language and history, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Moldova's acting president, Mihai Ghimpu, became the country's first leader in more than a decade to lay a wreath at a monument in downtown...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Benita Ferrero-Waldner, European Union Commissioner for External Relations and the European Neighbourhood Policy, has today arrived in Chisinau for a two-day official visit to the Republic of Moldova, the Delegation of the European Commission to Moldova has reported. During her stay she will have meetings with Acting President and Speaker of the Parliament Mihai Ghimpu, Prime Minister...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Swedish EU presidency presumes the Republic of Moldova may be admitted to the European Union even before Western Balkan states, Moldova’s Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu stated to the press after his meeting with the First Deputy Speaker of the Riksdag [parliament] of Sweden, Jan Bjorkman. Ghimpu said, Sweden stands for European Union enlargement, and...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Republic of Moldova is initiating negotiations on a new Agreement with the European Union, as per a Decree signed by Acting President Mihai Ghimpu on Wednesday. On November 13, the Government passed a decision on preparing the draft of such Agreement, and requested profiled ministries concerned to prepare necessary documents. The negotiations are expected to start in January 2010....
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Director of Assurance Department of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dorin Dragutan, is one of the candidatures of the Alliance for European Integration (AEI) to the position of governor of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM), proposed by Speaker of Parliament Mihai Ghimpu, at the sitting of the Permanent Bureau of the Parliament held on Wednesday, November 4. Dragutan is the candidature of the...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Acting Moldovan President Mihai Ghimpu says enough members of the opposition Communist Party will eventually help elect the country's new president and end the current stalemate, RFE/RL's Moldovan Service reports. Ghimpu, a leader of the four-party, pro-Western Alliance for European Integration (AIE) that won the July 29 elections, told RFE/RL that the communists will probably...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Parliament Speaker and acting President Mihai Ghimpu has met a delegation of the Sub-committee on Democratic Governance of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, led by a special rapporteur of the subcommittee Marc Angel, the parliament's mass media relations department has said. The NATO delegation is on a fact-collecting visit to Chisinau to give the final touches to a special draft report,...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Parliament Speaker and acting President Mihai Ghimpu has met a delegation of the Sub-committee on Democratic Governance of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, led by a special rapporteur of the subcommittee Marc Angel, the parliament's mass media relations department has said. The NATO delegation is on a fact-collecting visit to Chisinau to give the final touches to a special draft report,...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Moldova's commander of the National Army and chief of the General Staff, Gen. Ion Coropcean, has tendered his resignation, sources in the Defence Ministry have told Infotag. Under the legislation in effect, the resignation is to be examined by the government and then presented to the acting president and commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Mihai Ghimpu. Ion Coropcean is 49 years old....
The Sofia Echo (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
... which was scheduled for October 23.The Communists were unable to prevent the election of Mihai Ghimpu as speaker and Vlad Filat as prime minister, both of which require a simple majority in the 101-seat parliament – AEI has 53 MPs. However, the Communists have a stronger hand in the presidential vote, where a nominee needs to win 61 votes to be elected.Only one candidate had submitted...
Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
This upcoming Friday, the Moldovan Parliament will convene to decide about holding or not holding an election of President of Moldova, though initially the day of October 23 was set as the date of the long-waited election. Moldova's Acting President, Parliament Chairman Mihai Ghimpu reaffirmed the forum's Friday meeting will be held. Chairman of the parliamentary ad hoc electoral commission...
