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Check against delivery!  Very much welcome, dear Prime Minister, dear Dorin Recean, and your delegation here in Brussels, for the annual review of our relations with Moldova.  We are meeting at the highest institutional level, together with Commissioner [for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Oliver] Várhelyi and myself, you and your team, for the first time after the European Council decided to open accession negotiations with Moldova, which was certainly a very important step on your European path.  Today, we have confirmed that the relations between Moldova and the European Union have never been closer.  We have discussed many topics. Allow me to focus on three of them.  Firstly, I want to commend the impressive determination of the Moldovan government to advance on the European path – and that, despite internal and external challenges.  On the domestic front, key reforms are met with resistance from those who stand to lose from the fight against corruption and vested interests.  Externally, Moldova is directly…

Más de dos años después de la incursión rusa en Ucrania, los ataques siguen cobrándose vidas y destruyendo hogares e infraestructuras críticas en todo el país. Los planes de respuesta humanitaria para este año no han recibido ni la cuarta parte de los fondos requeridos.