#RUSSIA: Moldova in the crocs hairs. Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in Berlin.
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:38.6 | This is CBS I and the world. I'm John Bachelor. I welcome Judy Dempsey of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a scholar in Berlin to help me understand the European Union, 27 nations all going |
| 0:45.9 | in one direction for prosperity and yet Moldova, a small country to say the least, tucked in between Ukraine and Romania with a port on the Danube. |
| 0:57.0 | It is a historically significant part of the Black Sea Basin, once called Bessarabia. It mostly speaks |
| 1:04.6 | you Romanian, it has its own tongue. However it's been under pressure and |
| 1:10.3 | concern for some time because of Ukraine war Ukraine is wrapped around it |
| 1:15.1 | Odessa Oblast is right next door but also because there is reason to believe |
| 1:20.6 | that Russia wants to acquire, reacquire, influence the people of Moldova |
| 1:27.3 | who generally speaking do not want that. |
| 1:30.0 | And now we've had a vote in Moldova that says yes to the EU, but there's controversy. |
| 1:36.7 | I read from the BBC report, people in Moldova have backed the Eastern European countries |
| 1:41.8 | proposed changes to its constitution and |
| 1:44.8 | commitment to joining the EU. |
| 1:47.2 | However, almost immediately after the votes were in, the vote carried just marginally so far, counting 50.46 for yes, 49.54 for no. |
| 1:59.0 | Dimitri Pescoff, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, said there was something irregular about the vote |
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