In this fifth and final part of his conversation with Jacob Heilbrunn, Daniel Runde, Non-Resident Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Contributor to The National Interest, turns to Moldova — a country he has visited eight times and describes as strategically positioned between Ukraine and Romania.
For Runde, the real path forward is not immediate reunification with Romania, but European integration.
He argues that, with the right reforms and leadership, Moldova could, over the next twenty years, move from being one of Europe’s poorest countries toward a future of stability, openness and wealth.
A powerful closing exchange on history, identity, Russia’s influence, EU enlargement, and Moldova’s strategic future.
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