With EU accession, will “Moldova’s residents enter a bloody conflict for NATO”? Falsehoods spread by politicians, debunked and addressed by experts
Automatically translated summary. The full text is available in Romanian.
As accession negotiations with the EU open, disinformation about Moldova’s integration is circulating more often, including among politicians. An article published by Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” examines a claim by fugitive former MP Ilan Șor that EU membership would drag Moldovans into a conflict for NATO.
According to the article, Șor tells his more than 100,000 Facebook followers that, once Moldova joins the EU, “our residents will enter a bloody conflict for NATO”. At the beginning of February, Șor, who regularly travels between Israel and Russia, shared a message in Romanian and Russian on the EU accession process.
The narratives are analysed and debunked with the help of foreign policy expert Angela Grămadă and by reference to international provisions and treaties. The article was produced under the project “Building strategic communication to counter Russian disinformation in Moldova”, implemented by Expert-Grup in partnership with the Eastern Europe Studies Centre, with financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. The author is solely responsible for the information provided.
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