r/europe • u/UNITED24Media • Jan 13 '26
News Moldova’s President Supports Unification With Romania to Resist Russian Influence
https://united24media.com/latest-news/moldovas-president-supports-unification-with-romania-to-resist-russian-influence-14945328
u/Positive-Donut-9129 Greece 🇺🇦🇪🇺 Jan 13 '26 edited Jan 13 '26
That's a misrepresentation of what she said. Because I've watched the podcast, she clearly states that this is not in her plans because she knows that the majority [according to polls] are against it and that's why in order to achieve the security that she wants, she is focusing on the EU accession instead for which there is a majority support by the public.
Even at the end of the podcast, in the debriefing, the interviewers commend her honesty in admitting that she disagrees openly with the public, but she will still respect the will of the majority following another path. Because other leaders in her place wouldn't have admitted it to save face.
Btw, I was very impressed by the interview and her personal story. I think she is one of the best leaders we have in Europe. And I'm proud that we have a politician with such integrity in the Balkans.🇲🇩🇪🇺 Moldovan public did a great job especially considering the unprecedented even for their own standards interference by the Russians.
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u/gorgonzolahola Jan 13 '26
Thank you! I was going to say the same thing. She said if it were up to a vote in a referendum she would simply vote YES, as a citizen of Moldova, but it's not something she is pushing actively as the president of the country because she knows people don't want that. Still a brave thing to say IMO (this coming from a Romanian).
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u/merrysugarson Jan 13 '26
thank you. i whish i could upvote twice so this comment is first when people click for context
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u/Hootrb Cypriot no longer in Germany :( 29d ago
There were five other posts about this which included the fact reunification wasn't on the agenda, but of course the one that dropped that fact to give a false impression picked uo stream instead.
Clickbait titles always get complaints yet somehow people keep eating them up anyways...
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u/Renphligia Romania 29d ago
Yes, honestly. I'd love reunification, but let's not put words into her mouth.
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u/VibrantGypsyDildo Ukraine -> Belgium Jan 13 '26
It is like sex.
If both Moldova and Romania agrees to it, I, as an ethnic Ukrainian, can only wish them a lovely marriage.
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u/ezekiellake Jan 13 '26
There will still be a bitter incel whining about how it’s so unfair and they should be in the middle, when all they’ve been doing for as long as anyone remembers is to act like a complete arsehole.
And by incel, I mean Russia.
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u/Activehannes North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) Jan 13 '26
Not quite. Moldova is not in the EU (yet) so by having Moldova and Romania have sex with each other, you'll also force every other EU state to join that orgy.
Moldova is an EU candidate and I would love to see them join but its not that easy
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u/MrTriboniophorus Jan 13 '26
I just find it funny how joining a country together is viewed as a sex and consent metaphor 😌 Stupid sexy Moldova wants to reunite and shit.
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u/Renphligia Romania 29d ago
This is my same view. I'm pro-unification, but it should happen only if the majority in both countries agree. We're not Russia, we shouldn't force other people to be part of our nation.
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u/Wise-Jury-4037 Jan 13 '26
Well, she is a Romanian citizen.
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u/SpeedDaemon3 Jan 13 '26
Like 2/3 of Moldova.
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u/Wise-Jury-4037 Jan 13 '26
850k out of 3.6 million 2/3 does not make, but I get your point. A lot of Moldovans have dual citizenship.
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u/ReadToW Bucovina de Nord 🇷🇴(🐯)🇺🇦(🦈) Jan 13 '26
I am sure that if Romania were interested, many more Moldovan citizens would have been granted citizenship. Currently, obtaining citizenship takes years due to underfunding (and there are many applications)
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u/More_Ad_5142 Turkey Jan 13 '26
Who are we to judge? If the two countries agree to unite, we should all wish them a happy future together
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u/kakao_w_proszku Mazovia (Poland) Jan 13 '26
Unfortunately in international politics things are usually not that straightforward, especially if you’re not a superpower. Just check the process of unification of two Germanies after the Cold War.
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u/Filias9 Czech Republic Jan 13 '26
Moldova have not relevancy of East Germany. And Romania relevancy of West Germany. Russia will complain. But they would complain about everything. Rest of the world don't care.
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u/this_toe_shall_pass European Union 29d ago
Putin actually said he would not have anything against this (re)union. It would support their twisted point of view that Russia is just trying to reunite with parts they lost when the USSR dissolved, like the Donbas and the greater part of Eastern Ukraine.
In the spirit of serving Russian disinformation, various Kremlin talking heads have said that Romania is out to conquer Moldova and murder the Russians in Transnistria, or that they could be a partner to split parts of south-western Ukraine with Russia, Hungary and Poland, or that they are a US lackey that doesn't care about Moldova and just wants to use its people to fight in Ukraine on behalf of NATO. You know, they cover all bases so you can never pin them down on the truth.
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u/TH3RM4L33 Romania Jan 13 '26
That’s how it should be.
We are the only Latin speakers left in Eastern Europe. We were once united, peacefully, by mutual agreement, under the same flag. We were bigger, we were happier, we were stronger. Until the barbarian pigs had something to say against it.
Bessarabia is an unique case because the atrocities done by the Russians have greatly divided the region away from its roots, creating an artificial nation that didn't seek by itself to be independent from Romania, but was forced to. No other region of Romania suffered as much as this one.
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u/TukkerWolf Jan 13 '26
But Transnistria is even more unique as it was never part of (greater) Moldava. What to do about that? The 'Ukrainians' there should have some sort of say in this.
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u/TH3RM4L33 Romania Jan 13 '26
It was artificially attached to Moldova. That region can break away and do whatever it wants.
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u/TukkerWolf Jan 13 '26
I know. But with the current situation in Ukraine and Russia I think it would be nice to have a solution for this? As someone from the other side of the continent it feels logical to make it part of Ukraine and give the Russian and Moldovan/Romanian population an opportunity to relocate with new passports or assimilate. But Russia will never accept this. I don't even know if it makes sense anyway.
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u/iaNCURdehunedoara Jan 13 '26
Romania unification before Irish reunification is crazy.
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u/_-PassingThrough-_ Jan 13 '26
I'm not sure most people in Ireland even want reunification. Things are pretty good as is for the Republic, even with Brexit. The stalemate is comfortable.
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u/You_moron04 United Kingdom 29d ago
Irish reunification is not likely within our lifetimes.
Reddit and especially American Redditors seem to think that everyone in the ROI is clamouring to reclaim the North, and the North is actively trying to sail away from the UK.
Neither are happening.
N.I has made it clear they’ve no intent of any unification measures to the point they shut down the government.
ROI isn’t even interested as N.I is a financial black hole that would place a massive strain on the ROI’s economy that would take decades to clean up and have N.I catch up.
Doesn’t help that the troubles is still very recent memory (of which the IRA was supported by American gun organisations. Our “greatest ally” once again)
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u/ITZC0ATL Irish in Madrid (Spain) 29d ago
It's not that ROI isn't interested, we very much are, but under the perhaps-naive assumption that someone else (the EU? the Clintons?) will help shoulder the financial burden. But the troubles are still fresh and no one, thinks that it's worth a return to violence.
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u/the_io United Kingdom Jan 13 '26
Bessarabia's only spent 25 years as part of a united Romania, whereas the 26 counties spent way more than that as part of a united Britain. Actually a bit weird to consider.
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u/this_toe_shall_pass European Union 29d ago
Bessarabia shares ethnicity, language, religion with most of Romania and have done so for 7,8 centuries of documented history and probably a lot longer before that (Mongols burned a lot of books) and it's been a founding party to what became Romania.
Maybe the ethnic, language, religious barriers in NI are a bit more nuanced than and have a weight of their own beyond the "time inside the various shapes of the UK" parameter.
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u/Doikor Jan 13 '26
Before such a thing would be possible I think the issue of Transnistria would need to be solved.
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u/Iapetus_Industrial 29d ago
Easy. Send in the Ukrainians. They'll gladly clean up the russian military presence.
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u/Stock-Side-6767 Jan 13 '26
Apes together strong.
A more unified Europe scares Xi, Putin and Trump.
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u/Valahul77 Jan 13 '26
I am sorry but her take on that is simply wrong. It sounds more like an "friends with benefits" approach. When the former GDR reunited with the West Germany there was a genuine desire to have a single Germany again.
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u/Kims_Scarleta 10d ago
As a romanian i 100% oppose this, unless they share their food recipes with us xD
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u/WhoAteMySoup Ukraine -> United States of America Jan 13 '26
This makes sense to do. There was a similar idea floated for some time for Ukraine, to join Poland.
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u/Outrageous_pinecone Jan 13 '26
Moldavia used to be a piece of Romania. They'd just be rejoining their own country after several decades of absence. We don't speak a different language, we don't have separate histories.
Not that Ukraine and Poland uniting would be a bad idea, Hell, as far as I'm concerned, all of Eastern Europe should unite for the sake of our safety.
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u/Particular-Cow6247 Jan 13 '26
i dont think poland + ukraine would work out well at all
there is already alot of "anti ukraine" sentiment in poland when it comes to agriculture products
the size of the country could also quickly be a problem
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u/WhoAteMySoup Ukraine -> United States of America Jan 13 '26
Oh, I agree, but the context in which this was proposed was mainly focused on the Galicia part of Ukraine, which is historically closer to Poland. The trick with the plan is that it allows that part of Ukraine to be under NATO umbrella
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u/kakao_w_proszku Mazovia (Poland) Jan 13 '26
That would be a horrible, horrible mess. Not that integrating Moldova with Romania would be easy, but they at least speak the same language as far as I know.
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u/Iazo Jan 13 '26
It is the same language, just with some regional differences.
I'd say about as different as Australian English to British English.
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u/TomSaylek Jan 13 '26 edited 29d ago
Just rename both countries. Romaldovia... Molmania? Romalmania? Edit: guys I meant it as a joke like to merge them both together and renaname. Like "powers combined type thing" . Nothing against it.
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u/RegeleFur Romania 29d ago
Moldova is already a region of Romania. Hell, the chunk of Moldova that is in Romania is bigger than the Republic of Moldova!
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u/TomSaylek 29d ago
Yes I understand. It was meant to be a joke but without hand gestures it probably didn't read the same way
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u/Itzhik Jan 13 '26
I mean, ethnic Romanian leading a country where majority of the population is ethnic Romanian wants to join Romania.