Wyzwania dla Mołdawii na drodze do partycypacji w Unii Europejskiej – wybrane zagadnienia
Challenges facing Moldova on its way to participation in the European Union - selected issues

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to identify and characterize the most important challenges facing Moldova in the context of the dynamic process of its accession to the European Union (EU) in the second decade of the 21stcentury. The research hypothesis of the article is as follows: Moldova's rapid participation in the EU is hindered by many vital internal problems which must be solved by the centre of powerin Chisinau. In this context, the answers to the following research questions seem to be veryimportant: •What economic and social challenges does Moldova have to face? •What political challenges does Moldova have to address? •How do the Moldovan authoritiesrespond to these challenges? The author divided the challenges into two categories: economic and social challenges on the one hand, and political challenges on the other. This division was inspired by the Copenhagen Criteria adopted by the European Council in 1993, which are a set of criteria that must be met by a state in order to be accepted into the European Community. In the case of the first group of challenges, the following phenomena were distinguished and presented as the most important: the economic weakness of the state, the problem of labour migrations, the issue of human trafficking. Among the policy challenges, corruption, instability of the authorities and the lack of full control over the territory of the state were presented. In the course of the research, methods and techniques characteristic of political sciences were used, among others: analysis of documents, secondary analysis of quantitative research, deduction. Due to thesubject of the article, the events of the second decade of the 21stcentury were considered as priorities.

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