Moldova’s president herself views the prospect of independent EU accession skeptically and looks toward the GDR scenario - the path by which the German Democratic Republic entered the EU on the very day it was unified with the Federal Republic of Germany. What can one say - this, too, is a path: toward Europe through the loss of sovereignty. Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili wrote this on social media while assessing Moldovan President Maia Sandu’s statement that, in the event of a referendum, she would “vote for” unification with Romania.

As Papuashvili notes, “When a country’s president intends to vote against her own country’s independence, everything is clear.”

“In this sense, yes, we truly lag behind Moldova. What can we do - our three thousand years are not something we can give up; they prove that if you believe in your national identity, even a ‘small country’ can carry its statehood through the historical crucible.

At the same time, this statement clearly indicates that Moldova’s president herself views the prospect of independent accession to the EU skeptically and looks toward the GDR scenario - the path that brought the German Democratic Republic into the EU on the very day it joined the Federal Republic of Germany.

What can one say - this, too, is a path: toward Europe through the loss of sovereignty. I am sure our homegrown ‘hyper-Europeans’ also have one or two countries in mind to which they would promptly hand over Georgia’s sovereignty by citing Article 78. For them, no article before Article 78 is worth anything.

For us, however, the issue is simple - the European path for Georgia is the path of an independent state, not its abolition.

P.S. Since the topic has come up, let us also not forget that on October 4, at the very moment when the storming of the Georgian president’s palace was underway, Maia Sandu issued a public statement supporting violent groups involved in attempts to overthrow the government,” Papuashvili writes.

For information, Moldovan President Maia Sandu said in an interview with the British podcast The Rest Is Politics that, “in the event of a referendum, she would vote for unification with Romania.”

According to Sandu, she understands well that most Moldovans do not share her position.

“As Moldova’s president, I understand that there is no majority that would support unification with Romania, but there is a majority that supports joining the European Union. We are working precisely to achieve this goal. It is a much more realistic objective that helps us protect our sovereignty,” Sandu noted.