EU courts Moldova with visa-free travel from Monday

[dipsydoodle]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Moldovan citizens will no longer require visas to travel to the European Union beginning on Monday, as the bloc presses ahead with deeper ties with east European nations in defiance of Russia.

Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine are all seeking tighter links with the European Union as part of an Eastern Partnership with the bloc, which allows for closer trade and business ties without full EU membership.

In response to the Ukraine crisis, the European Union has said it will accelerate the partnerships and from Monday, all citizens of Moldova with a biometric passport can travel visa-free to Europe's Schengen zone, the European Commission said on Sunday in a statement.

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Ukraine's quest for EU ties triggered the current crisis in relations with Moscow, dividing the nation between those seeking to look West and those wanting to stay in Moscow's orbit.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/27/us-ukraine-crisis-moldova-eu-idUSBREA3Q0AS20140427

[ballyhoo]

1. Wonder if China will take all of Russia's

Euro gas exports. I'm sure there's data on them somewhere.

[PatrynXX]

3. well that is where XL Pipeline's crap is going

we get nothing out of it. balancing the ultra cost of cleanup and refining with whatever money they hope to make in China

[ballyhoo]

4. Okay, then answer me this..

If Russia said screw the EU for its affectations to former Soviet Bloc countries and started shipping all the EU's gas and oil to China, would that lessen the chances of the XL pipeline being approved? I keep trying to connect all this stuff. If you don't know that's fine.

[PatrynXX]

2. Ukraine's quest for EU ties triggered the current crisis in relations with Moscow

sorta.. the east thinks its economy can be saved by joining Russia. which is like playing Russian Roulette er wait a min

[ballyhoo]

5. Look at the comparative GDP's.

http://austereinsomniac.info/blog/2012/10/14/gdp-comparisons-ukraine-vs-russia-belarus-kazakhstan.html

[cosmicone]

6. i just don't get west's hardon for gobling

up CIS countries.

[awoke_in_2003]

7. Opening up trade and travel...

is gobbling up? You ever think that these countries fear Putin worse than the west? Putin isn't some noble night on a white horse, he is a KGB thug.

[strikeforce]

8. amen