Moldova to receive new international aid of more than 100 million euros

Moldova will receive new international aid of more than 100 million euros, the country is affected both by the influx of refugees and by the energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

AFP - DANIEL MIHAILESCU

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It is one of the countries most affected by the conflict in Ukraine: Moldova will receive additional aid of 100 million euros.

This is the main announcement made by French President Emmanuel Macron at the end of an international conference in support of the country.

A small country neighboring Ukraine, Moldova is affected both by the influx of refugees and by the energy crisis caused by the war.

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These 100 million euros announced this Monday in Paris by Emmanuel Macron come on top of the 600 million already collected during the first two support conferences organized in Germany and then in Romania.

This financial aid will aim to support

to face the winter in terms of energy.

The country of just under three million people has seen its gas deliveries halved by Moscow and can no longer rely on the electricity usually provided by Ukraine due to massive Russian bombings on infrastructure Ukrainians.

Another danger is that of inflation, which amounts to more than 30% according to Moldovan President Maia Sandu, while Moldova has been an official candidate for integration into the European Union since last June.

And it is also to help it go through the stages of this integration that its European partners have organized this conference, with the war in Ukraine in the background, but also the Russian troops stationed since the 1990s on Moldavian territory, in the small breakaway republic of

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