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Romanian President Nicușor Dan joined a growing movement of EU leaders on Tuesday by announcing that following Moldova’s decisive pro-European vote in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, “technical negotiations” for EU accession will now begin “even if the negotiations are not officially launched,” given Romania’s special relationship with Moldova.
The Romanian president also appears to support an EU challenge to Hungary’s power to veto Ukraine’s EU accession, calling it a question of “loyal EU cooperation”, but he remains hopeful a “middle ground” can be found.
“I hope the negotiations will be officially launched, but if not, they will take place in such a way that, from a structural and administrative point of view, Moldova will be ready for accession as soon as possible,” Dan told Euronews and Euronews Romania in a wide-ranging interview
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