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Moldova's EU accession talks formally begin
Summary
A presidential decree on 21 June 2024 set Chisinau's negotiating process in motion, with a first intergovernmental conference scheduled days later.
What did it mean when Moldova's president signed a decree on 21 June 2024? Maia Sandu's signature began negotiations on her country's accession to the European Union, turning the enlargement question into a formal process.
Sandu also announced that the first Moldova–EU intergovernmental conference would take place on 25 June, giving the process a date only four days after the decree. The reports listed the step within the wider enlargement of the European Union, alongside the question of Ukraine's accession.
The same week showed that relations among EU members were also under strain. On 17 June 2024, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk ordered Germany to explain a recorded incident in which German police appeared to abandon a migrant family in Osinów Dolny, Poland, just east of the Germany–Poland border.
The two items are separate, and the reports do not link them. Together they show the 21 June decree taking place while Warsaw and Berlin were dealing with a dispute over border practice.
