FILE PHOTO: Moldova's Prime Minister Maia Sandu speaks during a joint news conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany July 16, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN (Reuters) - Moldova's new government has a window of opportunity to build a functioning state free of the oligarchic systems that have blighted it in the years since independence, in 1991, Prime Minister Maia Sandu told Reuters.
Moldova, sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine, is one of Europe's poorest countries. The former Soviet republic of 3.5 million people has long been on the front lines of geopolitical rivalry between the European Union and Russia.
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