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Moldova at the Crossroads: The Political Economy Behind Europe’s Next Enlargement Test

For more than three decades, Moldova has stood somewhere between geography and geopolitics, between a Soviet inheritance and a European ambition. Today, as Chişinău edges closer to the European Union, the country’s journey offers a revealing test case for whether the EU is truly prepared politically, institutionally, and economically to absorb new members in an era defined by war, shifting power balances, and internal fragmentation.

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Moldova at the Crossroads: A Small State Navigating Big Geopolitics

Few countries illustrate Europe’s fractured geopolitical landscape as vividly as Moldova. A nation of under three million people, it has carried the heavy weight of contested histories, overlapping identities, and unresolved conflicts for more than a century. Today, Moldova again finds itself at a moment of profound transformation—caught between war on its border, competing political narratives at home, and the gravitational pull of the European Union.

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Moldovan Referendum: Not Great, Not Terrible?

The first time I went to Moldova it was by accident. Spending my summer vacation with some friends in Romania, we planned to visit the Eastern part of the country – Moldavia. While English, and my native Hungarian, make a clear distinction between Moldova and Moldavia, the Romanian language does not. Both are Moldova – the region, and the country, too. That’s how I ended up in Moldova instead of Moldavia after a two-hour-long wait at the Sculeni border crossing, the main entry point to the Republic of Moldova from Romania.

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