MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Moldovan legislature’s worrying attack on the rule of law and its impact on European aid to Moldova – P-000798/2025

Priority question for written answer  P-000798/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Auke Zijlstra (PfE)

On 19 February 2025, the head of Moldova’s Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office submitted her resignation to the Prosecutor-General. She cites as the reason for her resignation the bill proposing the abolition of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, which she says would weaken Moldova’s ability to hold those in power accountable for breaking the law. She voices concern at the Moldovan legislature’s undermining of the rule of law, and believes it will have serious implications for her country’s European future.

• 1.How does the Commission view these worrying initiatives on the part of the Moldovan legislature regarding the abolition of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office?
• 2.What implications does this development have for the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova and EU accession talks with the country?
• 3.Does the Commission share the view of Mr Victor Negrescu – rapporteur for the Reform and Growth Facility for Moldova – that the reservations expressed, among others, by the Committee on Budgetary Control in the opinion on the Facility for Moldova about the need for strict control of the use of funds in Moldova are ‘unfounded’?

Submitted: 20.2.2025