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"Mr President, I should like to extend a warm thank you to Mrs Matikainen-Kallström for the effort she has put into this report. The European Union is prepared to invest EUR 15 million, equivalent to SEK 120 million, in a long-term loan. The desire is for this to be given to Europe’s poorest country, which has a gross national product as low as that of the poorest countries in Africa.
Moldova is a country where the community, or society, has abdicated responsibility in a number of areas. The average wage among State employees is MDL 230, which is to say approximately SEK 150 or about EUR 19. The lowest pension is a mere quarter of this, or MDL 64. Because the State’s finances have been completely undermined, neither State employees nor pensioners receive their payments on time. Many have to wait for over a year for their money, and sometimes even longer.
Moldova is a deeply tragic example of the devastating consequences of Soviet Communism, an appalling ideology which has destroyed whole societies, countries and peoples spiritually, morally, socially and economically. What we see fully revealed here is the harvest of the dragon’s teeth sown by communism.
According to the Swedish professor, Per Ronnås, Moldova has seen a more devastating peacetime fall in its standard of living than any other country in modern times. At the same time, all the intelligence about people’s exposure to extensive torture by the police, involving electric shocks and suffocation with the aid of plastic bags placed over the head, is a very serious source of concern.
Moldova is today experiencing general migration. A quarter of the country’s four million people are estimated to have travelled abroad in search of work. Many poor and destitute girls have ended up in the hands of crime syndicates which degrade them and exploit them sexually. We can do nothing other than support this country, Europe’s very poorest."@en1
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