On 4 November the European Commission published the 2025 Enlargement Package. According to the report on the Republic of Moldova, over the last 12 months, our country has made progress in every chapter of negotiations, and the overall level of preparedness for accession to the European Union has increased considerably.
The Commission found that the Republic of Moldova has made very good progress in the field of energy (Chapter 15), and we have made good progress in 14 chapters: statistics (Chapter 18), financial control (Chapter 32), free movement of workers (Chapter 2), right of establishment and freedom to provide services (Chapter 3), free movement of capital (Chapter 4), company law (Chapter 6), information society and media (Chapter 10), taxation (Chapter 16), social policy and employment (Chapter 19), science and research (Chapter 25), education and culture (Chapter 26), customs union (Chapter 29), fisheries (Chapter 13), foreign policy, security, and defense (Chapter 31).
‘This year, Moldova has made the most progress of all the candidate countries. While in 2023, at the first assessment, we had seven chapters in the starting phase and only two with a moderate level of preparedness, in 2025 we no longer have any chapters in the starting phase and one-third of the chapters have a moderate or better level of preparedness. The level of preparedness has increased in two-thirds of the chapters over the last year. This is unprecedented progress for our country and proves that we, as a country, can deliver results’, said Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Cristina Gherasimov after the report was published.
2025 EU Enlargement Package Report Republic of Moldova
Factsheet on the 2025 EU Enlargement Package for the Republic of Moldova
2025 Republic of Moldova Level of preparation and registered progress