🇲🇩 Maia Sandu is the Telegraph’s World Leader of the Year.
The Moldovan president has spent the year defying the Kremlin turning her country into Europe's front line of democracy, all while earning less than £1,000 a month.
Read the interview with the woman Putin failed to break here ⬇️
https://t.co/w7Wixc90kE
🤝 The EU4Dialogue final conference in Chisinau brought together 130 people including participants from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia & Moldova! With EU support, for almost over 5 years, the project promoted various sector dialogues. The dialogue continues!
#EU4Dialogue
Three years of war. Three years of sacrifice. Three years of courage.
Ukraine has shielded Moldova from the horrors of war. We will never forget. Our hearts, our homes, and our support remain with the people of Ukraine.
Слава Україні!
Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moldovans opened their hearts and homes to over a million refugees. The People of Moldova receive an Honourable Mention for their remarkable humanitarian efforts in the 2024 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award: https://t.co/PEUQE1S8E9
Great news for vulnerable households in #Moldova.
150M NOK will fund the #Ecovoucher Program and #MREEF, helping cca 150K families and boosting energy efficiency.
My team and I are strengthening 🇲🇩🇳🇴 cooperation through the #Nansen Program to make a real impact.
Today, we celebrate 33 years of Moldova’s independence – a journey marked by resilience, unity, and hope. We honour our past and look to the future with determination, as we build a free, democratic, and European Moldova.
La mulți ani, Moldova! 🇲🇩
Moldova’s superstar Anastasia Nichita advances to the finals of women’s freestyle wrestling 57 kg tomorrow! Anastasia, you are incredible — we are all rooting for you.
Shaken by Russia’s attack on a children’s hospital in Kyiv. This hospital, which has saved thousands of children, now lies in ruins.
The Kremlin has turned this war into a war against children. Such lack of humanity and disregard for human life are everything we stand against.
Last week, young activists from across the #EasternPartnership exchanged ideas for a #SustainableFuture 🤝
Learn more about #EU4Dialogue, our programme fostering better understanding across the divides in the region: https://t.co/7AIuEc8T96
#ChangeMakers🌱
Dear President @ZelenskyyUa, we admire Ukrainians for showing incredible strength in defending homeland & intl law.
We’re grateful for your heroic defence & we stand in solidarity w/ you & your efforts to bring back peace. You have a reliable partner in 🇲🇩 that you can count on.
Lower roaming tariffs between Moldova and the EU becomes reality!
Today 🇲🇩&🇪🇺 telecom operators signed a voluntary Joint Declaration to reduce voice and data roaming charges from 1st January 2024.
This is one 1st steps towards bringing Moldova in the #RoamLikeatHome area.
After a year of online work, 50 inspiring women from the South Caucasus and Moldova came to Brussels to present their recommendations on
🗣️ promoting women's voice in #dialogue, peace & security processes
#EU4Dialogue 🇪🇺🤝
🔗https://t.co/7AIuEc8T96
The catastrophic earthquake in Turkey and Syria has left thousands dead and millions affected.
I am proud of the dedication and courage of Moldova's rescue team providing emergency support in Hatay, south-east Turkey.
Good to be back in Kyiv, my 4th time since Russia‘s invasion.
This time, with my team of Commissioners.
We are here together to show that the EU stands by Ukraine as firmly as ever.
And to deepen further our support and cooperation.
Today’s missile strikes across Ukraine against civilians & civilian infrastructure, with debris hitting a village in Moldova, are yet another violation of intl humanitarian law. It’s a brutal attempt by Russia to destroy critical facilities ahead of winter.
EU stands with Ukraine
Agreement. #EUCO has just decided EU candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova.
A historic moment.
Today marks a crucial step on your path towards the EU.
Congratulations @ZelenskyyUa and @sandumaiamd and the people of Ukraine 🇺🇦 and 🇲🇩
Our future is together.
We also recommend to grant Moldova the candidate status, on the understanding that the country will carry out reforms.
🇲🇩 is on a real pro-reform, anti-corruption and European path.
It still has a long way to go. But we believe it has the potential to live up to the criteria.
"I am impressed by the extraordinary generosity of the people and the government of #Moldova. 95% of the refugees are in houses. Moldovans have opened their borders but have also opened their homes and their hearts with an enormous generosity," -- @antonioguterres