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Did Moldova's CIS exit reshape regional politics?
Summary
A look back at two steps on 1–2 April 2026 that bore on how Moldova and Ukraine align with Europe.
What did the region's politics look like on 3 April 2026? The days just before it brought two notable decisions, one in Chisinau and one in Kyiv.
On 2 April, Moldova's parliament approved the country's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The government said the organisation's core values and principles were no longer respected, among them territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. It pointed to Russia's actions in the region, including the war against Ukraine and what it called an illegal military presence on Moldovan territory.
A day earlier, on 1 April, Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers approved the National Programme for Adapting Ukrainian Legislation to European Union law, the EU acquis. The programme contains about 1,850 tasks, which provide for implementing more than 1,600 acts of EU law.
Taken together, the two decisions showed both governments putting formal steps on paper in the days before 3 April 2026: Moldova left a Russia-linked grouping, while Ukraine set out a detailed legislative workload.
