The Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat declared that the key to the Transnistrian conflict is in Chisinau. The „Solution is in Chisinau and it depends directly on the living conditions, rights and freedoms citizens from the right bank of the Nistru River will have”, Filat said.

More than 1.2 million Moldovans will enjoy a simplified border crossing regime with Romania within an area of up to 50 km of the frontier under the Convention on Small-Scale Border Traffic signed by Vlad Filat and his Romanian counterpart Emil Boc in Bucharest last week.

Plans to open more negotiation chapters in the EU accession negotiations are being thwarted for political reasons and Turkish leaders are fuming. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, speaking to the Daily News in Spain, says it’s not understandable. ‘We are criticized by the Europeans for not being fast enough, but …