DISINFO: Moldova prepares a law allowing the sale of agricultural land to foreigners
SUMMARY
A law on separatists is being adopted in Moldova and a law is being prepared on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners. The official language is also changing: not Moldovan but Romanian. It is already being said that Moldova will leave the CIS, Moldova will pressed into NATO.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Moldova is under foreign control and is losing its sovereignty, promoted many time before, especially during electoral campaigns in the country.
In fact, such a legal proposal or bill does not exist. Both the Moldovan Government and the Parliament denounced this statement as false. Currently, Moldovan legislation states that only non-agricultural or forestry lands owned by public authorities can be sold to foreigners. Similarly, the law also prohibits private owners from selling their agricultural land to foreigners. Foreign investors can buy lands in Moldova to develop an entrepreneurial activity, with the exception of agricultural land and forest land.
See here a similar case claiming that Moldova has long traded his sovereignty for money from the US and Europe.
Countries wanting to join NATO do this through a voluntary application for membership. NATO reviews such applications and does not annex countries.