Moldovan bid to join EU under threat if pro-Russian groups win poll, officials say


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  • Friday, 12 Sep 2025

FILE PHOTO: EU and Moldova flags are seen in this illustration taken, June 23, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustrations/ File Photo

CHISINAU (Reuters) -Moldova could see its ambitions to join the European Union halted if it fails to return a pro-European parliament, senior Moldovan officials said on Thursday, as an opinion poll put the pro-Russian opposition in the lead in a general election campaign.

The president of parliament and the prime minister, senior members of President Maia Sandu's PAS party, said her drive to join the EU lay in the hands of voters in Moldova, one of Europe's poorest states lying between Ukraine and Romania.

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