“Just as Western Europe was offered an economic lifeline after the Second World War by the American Marshall Plan, Moldova and Ukraine need a tightly focused 21st-century equivalent from the European Union,” Euractiv quotes Sandu. She said that the original U.S.-led program aimed to demonstrate to a continent exhausted by war that “capitalism and democracy were a better way forward than anything offered by communism.” According to her, a contemporary version should offer “similar hope to those of us working our way towards EU membership.” Read also: Moldova to hold referendum on EU membership …