Moldova may scrap a trade agreement with the European Union after the country’s next parliamentary election, President Igor Dodon said Tuesday during his first state visit to Russia.
Speaking in Moscow at a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Dodon said it was “curious” that Moldova’s trade turnover with the EU had wilted since signing a political and trade pact with the bloc in 2014.
“We gained nothing from this agreement,” he told reporters. “We are not against the EU — we have common borders — but you cannot build a relationship on anti-Russia rhetoric,” news agencies quoted Dodon as saying …read more
Source: Voice of America
