ABSTRACT
Approximately 100 km from the border of the EU lies Transnistria – a secessionist region in the east of Moldova. It is the nearest unsolved secessionist conflict in the EU’s neighbourhood. Transnistria is also perceived as the most ‘solvable’ of all post-Soviet secessionist conflicts: the likelihood of violence in the region is virtually nil, and most of the issues pitching the conflict parties against each other are of political and economic nature, not ethnic or military as in South Caucasus.
