The European Union needs to develop a modern version of the Marshall Plan of the United States during World War II, but this time the efforts should be directed towards the recovery of Ukraine and Moldova, stated President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, at the annual EU budget conference in Brussels. “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,” Sandu stated. Signed by former US President Harry Truman in 1948, the Marshall Plan – named after…