The flag of Moldova. Archive photoCHISINAU, June 21The European Union will not offer its own solution to the Transnistrian issue to Moldova, which has chosen the path of European integration, said Romanian MEP Siegfried Murešan. Chisinau and Tiraspol as parties to the conflict, Russia, Ukraine, the OSCE — as mediators, the EU and the US — as observers. The only round of negotiations in the 5+2 format in 2019 took place in Bratislava on 9 and 10 October. No meetings could be held in this format during 2020 and 2021.In Moldova, several thousand people protested over prices «Brussels will never offer a solution (of the Transnistrian conflict — ed.) to Chisinau. The European Union can only support it, help in finding it, but it must meet the desire of the people on both banks of the Dniester,» Mureşan said on Jurnal TV. side in promoting reforms and fulfilling the conditions put forward by Brussels,» Mureshan emphasized. Earlier, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the EC recommended granting Moldova the status of a candidate for joining the European Union. At the same time, she stressed that Moldova «has still a lot to do.» Transnistria, 60% of whose inhabitants are Russians and Ukrainians, sought secession 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, Pridnestrovie became virtually a territory not controlled by Chisinau.
