EU must ensure Moldova isn't the next Crimea, Juncker says


  • World
  • Sunday, 23 Mar 2014

Former Luxembourg prime minister Jean-Claude Juncker delivers a speech after it was announced that he will become the European People's Party (EPP) candidate for the European Commission during their elections congress in Dublin March 7, 2014. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett

BERLIN (Reuters) - Jean-Claude Juncker, the former Luxembourg premier who wants to be next head of the European Commission, said Europe must rush through an association deal with Moldova to avoid it becoming Russian President Vladimir Putin's next target for annexation.

"After events in Ukraine, it is of great urgency that the Europeans sign the association agreement with Moldova very quickly, in the next few weeks," Juncker told the German newspaper Die Welt am Sonntag in an interview.

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