Russia's efforts to influence Moldova's elections and steer it away from the European course through hybrid warfare have failed - expert

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Asked whether the elections in Moldova could in any way speed up the country's accession to the European Union (EU), Kudors said that on the one hand there is the desire of Moldovan citizens to integrate into the bloc, while on the other it is about the EU's readiness to accept new members.
54% : In his view, the fastest way for Moldova to integrate with the EU would through a merger with Romania, but the political party pushing this idea in Moldova received around 5 or 6 percent of the vote in the elections.
53% : He pointed out that after the wave of EU enlargement in 2014, there was a lot of talk about the need to integrate the admitted countries, and also of integration fatigue.
51% : He stressed that Russia is a strategic military obstacle to Moldova's integration into the EU, as it controls the breakaway territory of Transnistria.
42% : He also mentioned that Moldova had done what it could in the EU's Eastern Partnership program, but that the EU itself had not offered a clear road map for Moldova to join the bloc.

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