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Moldova narrowly votes 'yes' to EU membership
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This is good news, although I wonder why they don't just vote to reunite with Romania instead. Moldova really doesn't need to be its own country. It basically exists because of Russian "separatists".
I'm curious about this too. I'd be interested in a informed opinion by someone from Romania or Moldova that could share their insight.
It is a really fragile topic, at least for moldovans and I'd say it is mostly due to ideological reasons. A lot of moldovans do not identify themselves as romanians and this is due to 2 main reasons:
Out of these reasons Moldova had and has a huge debate over the existence of Moldovan language, just recently the constitution was updated stating that the state official language is Romanian. Within Moldova at this point there is the Moldovan dialect which differs a lot from other Romanian dialects, even the Moldovan dialect from within Romania, where Moldovan dialect has a mixture of russian/ukranian words.
So, as I said, Moldova exists because of Russia's divide-and-conquer tactics. Moldavia/Moldova has been part of Romania or its earlier polities for at least 2000 years. This would be like a hypothetical Donbas Republic voting to join an EU of which Ukraine is already a member. Why not rejoin the country it was part of before Russian imperialism broke it apart?
The linguistic thing needn't be an issue. Multilingual countries aren't exactly rare in the EU.