16/05 16:19 CET
Three years of political stalemate in Moldova ended in March with the election of President Nicolae Timofti.His republic sits between Romania and Ukraine, a former Soviet republic with fragile relations with a breakaway region, Transnistria, that needs mediation from the EU, US, Ukraine, Russia, and the OSCE, the 5+2 group.
Moldova is desperately poor and has a militarised eastern border, yet is determined to become an EU member alongside its western neighbour Romania.
