Conflictul din Transnistria: intre solutii si inconsecvente

Abstract

Given the circumstances of the Soviet breakdown, not all the countries in the East had the success of the Baltic ones and had to struggle to impose their authority on all their territories. In the early '90s, many of the new states from the East were on the edge of civil war and in the middle of crisis with their secessionist regions. Because European Union was not prepared for all these struggles, it chose to focus on the Balkans and on the accession procedures for the Central and Eastern Europe. Transnistria became a point of interest for the EU as soon as Romania joined it and the last frontier to the East was with Republic of Moldova. The initiatives of the European Neighbourhood Policy in the East aimed at gathering the states around a set of values and Moldova was a success story. Unfortunately, there is still the unsolved problem of Transnistria. In this paper I argue that the inconsistencies in the European Union's influence and the continuous compromises of Chisinau contributed to the strengthening of Tiraspol and the perpetuating of this unstable situation.