Ina Coșeru is a Moldovan MP from the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS). She chairs Moldova’s Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and European Integration. Her position is closely linked to Moldova’s path towards EU membership, since it falls to Parliament to do a significant part of the work associated with the accession process.
Coșeru was in Kyiv this week as a delegate of United for Ukraine, which brings together Western politicians supporting Ukraine during Russia’s armed aggression.
Coșeru is currently in a unique situation. She holds a high-level position in the current Parliament, but she won’t be standing in the upcoming elections on 28 September. That means she is less constrained by political considerations. At the same time, the MP emphasises that she is still very much part of the ruling party’s team and explains how crucial it is for both Moldova and Ukraine that PAS wins the next elections.
In this conversation with European Pravda, Coșeru acknowledges that the idea of decoupling Moldova and Ukraine in their EU negotiations has been rejected. That won’t happen before the elections, although Chișinau was working on it some time ago. She also recognised that the government is preparing for the reintegration of Transnistria.
But the government’s main public task now is to convince people that Moldova will be able to comply with all European legislation and be legally ready to join the EU by 2028. This last point is the core of PAS’s election campaign.
Our conversation with Coșeru covered all of these topics. We present it here in a condensed form, in direct first-person language rather than a question-and-answer format, with quotes grouped by topic.
Moldova has set itself the goal of being ready to join the EU by 2028
This is a realistic deadline. It comes from the messages we receive from the Europeans, who tell us that it is possible provided there is a pro-European majority in the Parliament of Moldova. If there is no pro-European majority, of course, the deadline will be pushed back. Without a majority, it will not be possible to quickly pass the necessary European legislation.
That is why the parliamentary elections on 28 September are the most important milestone we need to pass. We must explain to the electorate not only the risks, but also the opportunities for Moldova’s future.
The government’s action plan confirms that 2028 is a realistic deadline.
It’s achievable if we take into account the financial…
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