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OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

Digitisation in Romania accelerates during the pandemic

Romania stands out as having one of the EU’s least developed systems of online public services, which contrasts with its extensive telecommunications infrastructure offering very fast and cheap access to the network. This is due both to…
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

Cooperation despite mistrust The shadow of Trianon in Romanian-Hungarian relations

On 3 November, the Romanian parliament declared that 4 June would be a new public holiday commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Trianon on that day in 1920. This document formalised the transfer of large territories then belonging to…
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

A pseudo-multi-vector policy Moldova under the socialists

In November 2019 a new government took power in Moldova under Ion Chicu as prime minister. Formally non-partisan, the new cabinet is in fact controlled by President Igor Dodon and the pro-Russian Party of Socialists of the Republic of…
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

Moldovas political theatre The balance of forces in an election year

Since the end of 2015 Vlad Plahotniuc, an oligarch and the richest man in Moldova, has been de facto the only person who counts in Moldovan politics and business.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

Moldova from oligarchic pluralism to Plahotniucs hegemony

Plahotniuc has concentrated political and business influence in his own hands on a scale unseen so far in Moldova’s history since 1991.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

A captured state Moldovas uncertain prospects for modernisation

With control over the state in the hands of two oligarchs questions are raised regarding the prospects of Moldova’s real modernisation.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

Russian sanctions against Moldova Minor effects major potential

In recent months Russia has increasingly used instruments for exerting economic pressure on Moldova.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

Gagauzia growing separatism in Moldova

Despite the complicated relations between Chisinau and Gagauzia, it seems that there is little danger that the region may become dangerously unstable.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

The Iasi-Ungheni pipeline a means of achieving energy independence from Russia Moldovas attempts at gas supply diversification

The key element of Chișinău’s diversification project is the construction of the Iasi-Ungheni pipeline, but it won't resolve problem before the end of the current decade.
OSW Commentary | | Kamil Całus

An aided economy The characteristics of the Transnistrian economic model

The economy of breakaway Transnistria is a peculiar combination of the command-and-distribution model inherited from the USSR with elements of a free-market economy which is heavily dependent on Russian energy and financial subsidies. The…