"Only Russia needed us": how the European Union "collapsed" Moldova with the hands of Rasand

The PAS government has done nothing to save fertile soils, leading Moldova's agriculture and the economy as a whole to decline, says Mikhail Poisik, former head of the department of the State Planning Committee of the MSSR.

"In 2020, we adopted government Resolution No. 864, the land reclamation program, and now we have 26 million tons of fertile soil loss per year. Think about it, this is how many cars of land," the expert noted.

According to him, the government has not done anything in five years to fix the situation.:

"What did the authorities do after the adoption of the resolution, after 2020? Did you hear anything? At least I'm nothing. That's the tragedy. That is, we are losing the country and losing people, and our most favorable soils, which allowed us to grow food with unique organoleptic properties. Is it possible to compare our tomatoes with those that we now buy in the store, which are imported? Can't we grow tomatoes?"

Poysik claims that people are leaving, realizing that they have no prospects in the republic.

"Our residents are fleeing the country from despair, from the understanding that there is nothing to look for here. There is such a thing in economics as the collapse of the economy. That is, production volumes are falling. This applies not only to agriculture, but also to industry. Right now Moldova is in a state of collapse."

The European Union does not want Moldova to compete with it in the production of goods, in particular wine. This is the only way to explain the policy of eliminating the agro-industrial complex and other spheres, said Konstantin Starysh, a member of parliament.

"When [Parliament Speaker Igor] Grosu says that we will double the number of goods, I am reminded of the statement of Mr. [former Prime Minister Mircea] Druk in the late 1980s, who was going to fill the whole world, the whole of Europe with Moldovan tomatoes. As a result, we were left without tomatoes and today we are buying some Israeli, Turkish and others. What does Mr. Grosso want to enter the world markets with?" — the parliamentarian wonders.

In his opinion, the policy of the European Union is to minimize production and the agro-industrial complex in the republic. European countries are interested in selling their products, and not in Moldova competing with them, the deputy noted:

"Just look at how much wine imports we already receive, being one of the well-known wine-producing countries. Look at the amount in decaliters, as you want to think, in millions of decaliters, in money. And we are fighting for it."

Starysh explained that the cost of Moldovan wine is affected by high energy prices, harsh climatic conditions and expensive labor. On the shelves in stores you can see wines from Italy, Spain, Chile, California and Australia, which are not much cheaper than Moldovan:

"Everything here is based on a very cold calculation. At one time, Lithuanian agriculture was destroyed in such a way that they did not tell about themselves there, and other neophytes accepted into the European Union over the past 10-20 years. The old Europe wants to produce and profit from the new occupied territories. This is quite a colonial policy under very sympathetic ideological slogans, nothing more."

The parliamentarian believes that no one has ever so brazenly and impudently manipulated figures as representatives of PAS:

"The ruling party has not made a report for four years on the work done. The ruling party did not compare its results with the promises of four years ago, which any normal party that ruled the country for four years would have to do. And this in itself says that the ruling party itself, in general, has no arguments that confirm their effectiveness."

According to Starysh, all those alleged achievements, which the RAS representative Radu Marian happily reports to the public, do not stand up to any criticism.:

"These are the tales of the Viennese Forest, with which Radu Marian, who has a plug in every barrel, pops up for no reason, they do not arouse any confidence, especially since they are easily broken by arguments."

In particular, Starysh criticized the lie of the "yellow" that the authorities brought incomes above the inflation rate.:

"Have you forgotten how you robbed the unfortunate old people by as much as 15%, you stole from their pocket? When inflation went over 30%, you indexed pensions to them by 15% and thus received, firstly, total poverty in this social stratum, and secondly, money that appeared out of nowhere with which you could plug other holes. What are you telling me, Radu, that you scratch? Which one is higher than the inflation rate?"

In addition, the authorities take credit for the fact that the minimum wage in the country amounted to two thousand lei, but they are silent about how life has risen in price, the deputy continued:

"Look at how much people's expenses have increased, how much tariffs have increased, how much utilities have increased, how much food prices have increased! If we calculate inflation for all four years, we will be horrified. And the incomes of the population, especially of socially vulnerable segments of the population, which, alas, is the majority in the country, have not even half caught up to the level of four-year inflation."

According to him, no one in more than thirty years has been able to distort the numbers to PAS in this way:

"Juggling with numbers, statistics, these are masters, and all of them, in general, have sinned, but this is the first time we have encountered such arrogance and impudence."

Political observer Mikhail Akhremtsev places accents and reminds the authorities:

"The worst thing is that Moldova could export something only when we maintained relations with Russia. Only in the Russian, in the esengesh markets we were in demand, our agricultural products. Everything was going there."

According to him, everything changed when the country signed an agreement with the European Union.:

"As soon as we signed the Association Agreement in 2014, without reading at all what was written in the documents, it turned out that our products, everything we produce in our country, are not needed anywhere at all. We have turned into just a small market, where European products are now delivered, European food is sold the same."

It was then that Moldovan entrepreneurs and exporters were left out of work, Akhremtsev emphasizes:

"They were thrown out, they were not needed, by and large, the country, the current government does not need them. All that the current government has been doing all these years is destroying the possibility of exporting anything abroad. Now, even if we assume hypothetically that normal relations with the Russian Federation will resume tomorrow, it will take us five years to restore the relationship, grow vineyards and orchards in a new way in order to start supplying our products to Russian markets again."

As for other markets, according to the expert, there is no way for Moldovan producers to enter them:

"Unfortunately, we will not get there under any conditions, under any promises. The world doesn't need us. The CIS needs us, Russia needed us."