EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR ROMANIAN UNITY

The Republic of Moldova marks today 28 years of independence from USSR and 30 years this month since the Romanian language became once again the official state language following almost half a century of USSR illegal occupation, forced Russification and oppression. The struggle for freedom in the Republic of Moldova has been synonymous with the assertion of its Romanian national identity. Moldova is not a complex narrative. There is no great political or anthropological debat

2nd March 1992: 27 years since the official beginning of the war in Transnistria. It was at this moment that a Russian policy towards the “near abroad” emerged. The cornerstone of this policy was “peace-keeping” through continuous Russian involvement in the region with the purpose of keeping it within Kremlin’s sphere of influence. The same pattern of conflict and involvement through “peace-keeping” can be observed in the cases of Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan. The Russian

The unimaginable perishes in the face of hope. And there is always hope. Hope for a united Europe that goes beyond the Prut river, beyond the Danube, beyond the Bug river. Hope for a Europe that does not overlook the mistakes and misfortunes of its past, but strives to fix them and learn from them, so we can truly achieve that most important and fragile European dream: that dream of never again. Hope for the reunification of Moldova and Romania within this brave, new, unite

Centrul European pentru Unitate Românească / European Centre for Romanian Unity (ECRU) va promova la nivelul instituțiilor europene unitatea culturală, lingivstică și istorică a celor două state și va sprijini integrarea europeană deplină, prin intermediul României, a Republicii Moldova. „Obiectivul ECRU nu este de a face lobby sau de a cere voie cuiva să înfăptuim Unirea. Doar cetățenii României și cetățenii Republicii Moldova se pot pronunța în această privință. Scopul nost

Several anti-unification myths or theories have been promoted, on an amateur or professional level, by those who show scepticism towards the process of reunification. Based on so called “pragmatism”, they approach the unification of Bessarabia with Romania in the context of "it would be nice, but it’s not possible" and invoke economic or strategic arguments to this end. Without contradicting the historical truth – according to which Bessarabia is part of the Romanian territor