The Commission has resumed budget support assistance to the Republic of Moldova by disbursing 14.54 million euro to support the implementation of the EU-Moldova free trade agreement, to finance vocational education trainings and to assist the implementation of the visa liberalisation action plan.

The resumption of disbursements comes after a nearly two-year period during which such payments had been put on hold because of a deterioration of the rule of law situation in the country. The recently installed government has taken important decisions, which have allowed the EU to assess that the conditions have been met to resume its budget support to the Republic of Moldova.

This amount of 14.54 million euro corresponds to budget support disbursements under three programmes:
– The support to the implementation of the Free trade agreement between Moldova and the EU;
– The Vocational Education Training Programme;
– The Visa liberalisation action plan support programme.