The largest European anti-Russian alliance comes together, this is the message that the leaders sent to Vladimir Putin from Moldova

Moldova brings together all the political problems facing the leaders of the European Political Community (EPC), a more or less informal political grouping founded in 2022. The government in the capital Chisinau fears that Moldova, a small country located between Romania and Ukraine, could be the next target of Russian aggression if Ukraine were to lose this current war, as Deutsche Welle writes. The part of the country that is loyal to Russia, Transnistria, declared independence from Moldova 30 years ago and has been under the control of so-called Russian "peacekeepers". Despite this "frozen" conflict, the EU agreed to grant Moldova, along with Ukraine, the status of a candidate for membership. The meeting of 47 heads of state and government in Castel Mimi on Thursday, addressed precisely these topics: Russia's war against Ukraine, EU expansion and the intensification of mutual cooperation between European countries, with the exception of Russia and Belarus associated with it. French President Emmanuel Macron, who conceived the format, said in Prague that the EPC is an instrument to prevent "civil wars and the growing problems of a united Europe". The EPC as the European Forum "in XXL format" has already made a decision at the first meeting in Prague: the third meeting will be held in October in Spain, while the fourth next year in Great Britain. Emmanuel Macron's idea was not entirely new. In 1989, the then French president Francois Mitterand proposed such a community although it did not bear fruit because he wanted to include Russia,