How big a slice will Russia get?

Published on 15 October 2010

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"Which market will the EU promise Russia for a nod to Moldovan reunification?" wonders România liberă. According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, German chancellor Angela Merkel is offering Russian president Dmitri Medvedev autonomous status and economic aid for Transnistria, Moldova’s breakaway Russian-speaking province, in hopes of eventually bringing it into the EU fold along with the rest of Moldova. The country itself is mostly Romanian-speaking, and jealously protected by Bucharest. Berlin, as a new temporary member of the UN Security Council, "is trying to resolve Europe’s deadlocked conflicts”,comments Alexander Rahr, director of the foreign policy think-tank, the Berthold Beitz Centre. The matter will be thrashed out at the upcoming summit in France between Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Dmitri Medvedev on 17 October.

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