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On 23–24 June, President Vladimir Voronin undertook a work visit to Brussels, where he met a number of European officials. During the meeting with Guido Podesta, deputy chairman of the European Parliament, Voronin expressed his satisfaction at the support that the EU institutions are granting Moldova and mentioned that the 5 June 2003 EP Resolution and the recommendations of the 4th Parliamentary Conference of SEESP countries on 22 May 2003 which requests that the EU institutions examine the possibility of including our state in the Stabilisation and Association Process in the South Eastern Europe. Voronin then met Romano Prodi, President of the European Commission and Christopher Patten, European Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, who assured the Moldovan official of the fact that in the context of the recent EU initiative towards its new neighbourhood following the 2004 and 2007 enlargements, an individual EU plan for Moldova will be drafted. In his turn, Voronin reiterated the priority option of Moldova for European integration and stressed that soon the Conception on European Integration of Moldova is to be drafted and the Department for European Integration is to be created.

Apart from the state of confusion that has been created by the equivocal statements of the Moldovan authorities among the civil society and the mass media, for which it is not yet clear whether at present a concept or strategy of European integration is being drafted, the statements of the head of state have increased this confusion. Victor Stepaniuc, co-chair of the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Co-operation Committee told his EU counterpart Jan Marinus Wiersma, during the recent meeting of the committee that “the strategy of integration of our country to the EU has been drafted and will be discussed in the Parliament in the nearest future”. The only plausible explanation of using these two different terms — strategy and conception — could be a parallel drafting of both documents which will lay the basis for the future EU-Moldova relations. It would be logical for the conception to be drafted first so that it is a foundation for the strategy. Besides, if one is to believe the statements of the President, then we can believe that he ignores his own decree where he has used the term strategy and not conception.

President Voronin also met with NATO General Secretary Sir George Robertson, Kees Van Rij and Karl Hartzell, advisors to the EU High Representative for the CFSP, Javier Solana, as well as the Minister President of French Community in Belgium Herve Hasquin, and the King of Belgium, Albert the 2nd.

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