The leaders of France, Germany and Poland said in Chisinau on 27 August during the Independence Day celebrations that they fully support Moldova’s European path and its security.
The joint visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk comes on the back of efforts related to a possible peace settlement in Ukraine and a month before Moldovan parliamentary elections on 28 September. In these elections, the ruling PAS party, founded by Maia Sandu, risks losing its majority.
The statements made by the three European leaders and President Sandu at the press conference focused on the security of Moldova, which is facing threats, and the need to continue on the European path.
All four politicians condemned Russian attempts to influence domestic political developments in Moldova, including through propaganda and “lies,” as Macron called them.
France, Germany and Poland, the three largest EU countries, form the so-called Weimar Triangle, a consultative structure created in 1991 between three countries with complicated historical relations but who now have much in common, including a desire to work together on the European project.
In recent months, this structure has sometimes been recalled as a possible promoter of a European security policy less dependent on the United States, amid a reorientation in Washington’s foreign policy following the return to office of Republican President Donald Trump.