By Clare Nuttall in Yerevan Moldova has had a tough few years, battered first by the pandemic, then by the outbreak of war in neighbouring Ukraine and energy crisis. However, with the EU’s decision to give the small country accession candidate status, there is hope it will see the same accelerated growth achieved by other states on their way to EU entry, said the country’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Digitalisation Dumitru Alaiba in an interview with bne IntelliNews. The 2022 decision to give Moldova EU candidate status, followed by the December 2023 go-ahead…