Is European Union 'buying democracy' in Moldova for 1 billion Euros?

According to opposition leaders in the Republic of Moldova, the EU representatives are exerting pressure on them in order to convince them to find a peaceful compromise with the communist majority in the newly elected Parliament. The official reason is that Moldova is on the verge of an economic collapse and that the country won't sustain another runoff elections demanded by the opposition, which got lots of evidence that those elections had been rigged by the communist authorities. The opposition also demands a full investigation of the post-election events in Kishinev on April 7-8, which led to loss of human lives, awful abuses of the police forces and damages to official buildings reaching hundreds of millions of Moldovan Leis.

More than that, the leader of the Liberal Party of Moldova, young Mayor of Kishinev Mr.Dorin Chirtoaca, has publicly declared that the EU representatives have promised to provide all the necessary assistance to Moldova in getting 1 billion Euros of financial aid in case the opposition comes to an arrangement in the new Parliament in view of electing a new President and a new Government (both obviously communist). Putting aside the political correctness of this disclosure by Mr.Chirtoaca, such a statement however raises some unpleasant questions for the EU politicians:

1. This amount of money is huge, and to promise it means that it has been somehow pre-approved by top decision makers. In this case, it would be interesting to know how did it surface before the official conclusions of the European Parliament on tragic events in Moldova? And what was the sense then of the European delegation to Moldova, headed by Marianne Mikko, who said at the end of the mission that she was shocked about the facts discovered in Moldova?


2. For what merits the EU would support another communist administration in Moldova, which for last 8 years in power has failed to ensure firm democratic governance in the country and failed to build up a sustainable economic model, having turned Moldova into the poorest country in Europe?


3. Does EU realize that with an extreme level of uncontrollable corruption in the country, absence of viable democratic system of checks and balances, probably one-third of those money would be used to prolong the survival of an autocratic ill state, or washed away into off-shores?


4. How consistent such an approach of 'buying democracy' is with the European democratic principles and morals? Would such appeasement bring the desired results and would it be lasting?


5. Taking into account that the current Moldovan Government also asked Moscow for a 1 billion Euros assistance, does EU realize that this is just an obvious double game?


6. Wouldn't it be more civilized for EU to support and truly monitor another elections, which would eliminate any doubts over the credibility of the new administration and only then provide assistance under some very strict conditions of real systemic changes in Moldova?