Tiraspol. File photoCHISINAU, June 10Chisinau will not give up Transnistria for the sake of integration into the European Union, said Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration of Moldova Oleg Serebryan. «, but it will add new problems. I have not yet seen a country just give up 11% of its territory, our citizens live there, there are more than 200 thousand of them. Then it will cause a domino effect, this is exactly what we should not allow,» Serebrian said. on the air of RTR Moldova TV channel. reintegration of the country with the process of European integration. Moldovan President Maia Sandu signed an application for the republic's accession to the European Union on March 3. European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Oliver Varhelyi on April 11 in Luxembourg handed over questionnaires to the Foreign Ministers of Georgia and Moldova to start the procedure for joining the EU. Moldova handed over the first part of the questionnaire to the EU representative on April 22, the second on May 12. Transnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought to secede from Moldova even before the collapse of the USSR, fearing that Moldova would join Romania on the wave of nationalism. In 1992, after a failed attempt by the Moldovan authorities to solve the problem by force, Transnistria became a territory that was actually not controlled by Chisinau. Transnistria
