On 27 August 1991, the Great National Assembly of the Republic of Moldova adopted the Declaration of Independence enshrining the end of Soviet Union control over the country. This year, the Independence Day is celebrated with a picturesque military parade in Piața Marii Adunări Naționale (Great National Assembly Square) involving the National Army troops and vehicles as well as divisions of the Ukrainian, Romanian, Polish and British armies.

The Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán has spoken on the state radio announcing Hungary should place another “more massive” razor wire fence on its southern borders in case of migrants’ inflows will increase further in next months. This is just the last of a series of decisions the right-wing populist leader and the government have made after the European migrant crisis has deteriorated dramatically in 2015 and thousands of refugees left the Middle-East region to reach the EU coasts and borders.

The fence is going to be installed around the Storskog border point at the Norway-Russia border in a few weeks. Last year, 5,500 migrants used this border point to cross into Europe. Russia has had a 120-mile long fence at the border with Norway since the Cold War. The plans of the Norwegian government have been already criticized by the Refugees Welcome group in Norway and the Norwegian officials from the border region. Among other Nordic countries, Sweden also expressed the intentions to set up border controls and toughen asylum rules.

Analysts stated that now the economy is forging ahead, despite that for month Spain been awash with warnings that the country’s long-lasting deadlock threatens to harm a fragile recovery.The state has been without a fully-functioning government for eight months with squabbling political parties unable to achieve any sort of pact following inconclusive polls in December, and again in June.Acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, whose conservative Popular Party came first in both polls, though without an absolute majority, is negotiating to try to form a minority or coalition government.

The former president of France Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he is going to run in the next presidential election. "I feel that I have strength to continue the fight, during this highly unstable moment in our history"- wrote on his Facebook profile. In 2012 he lost with Francois Hollande. In the current presidential election race his main aims are to strengthen the country's foundations and reforms such as decreasing country's spending by 100 billion Euro. In addition, he wants to focus on liberal reforms, which will boost the economy.

As divisions in Europe are hardening under the pressure of the large flow of refugees since WWII, experts are making the case to set the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), thus that it is quick to adapt and make the bloc resilient to rapid geopolitical changes.“We live in an age of instability. It is beginning to sink in people’s mind. We need to develop crisis-management strategies as crisis has become part of the norm,” said Demetrios Papademetriou, co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute, and President of MPI Europe.