Snagov Declaration
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The Snagov Declaration (Template:Langx) was a declaration signed on 21 June 1995 by the leaders of the parliamentary parties in Romania at the time committing to a strategy aimed at Romania's accession to the European Union (EU). The declaration is named after Lake Snagov, as it was signed in a villa on its shore. The day after the declaration's signature, Romania submitted its official application to join the EU, entering the bloc in 2007.[1][2] A similar declaration was signed in 2001 in the same location to commit to Romania's accession to NATO.[3]
The declaration was signed by President Ion Iliescu, Prime Minister Nicolae Văcăroiu, President of the Senate Oliviu Gherman and President of the Chamber of Deputies Adrian Năstase; by party leaders Gherman and Năstase (Social Democracy Party of Romania), Petre Roman (Democratic Party), Template:Ill (Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party), Gheorghe Funar (Romanian National Unity Party), Béla Markó (Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania), Corneliu Vadim Tudor (Greater Romania Party), Nicolae Manolescu (Template:Ill), Ilie Verdeț (Socialist Party of Labour), Template:Ill (Liberal Party 1993), Sergiu Cunescu (Romanian Social Democratic Party), Niculae Cerveni (Template:Ill), Victor Surdu (Democratic Agrarian Party of Romania) and Otto Weber (Romanian Ecologist Party); and by President of the Commission for the Development of the National Strategy for the Preparation of Romania's Accession to the European Union Template:Ill.[4]
On 26 May 2024, 14 parties in Moldova, including the then ruling Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS), signed the Pact for Europe (Script error: No such module "Lang".), inspired by the Snagov Declaration, to commit to Moldova's accession to the EU, among other aims.[5] Earlier, for several years, Action 2012 had been proposing a "Pact for Bessarabia" (Script error: No such module "Lang".), inspired as well by the Snagov Declaration, to commit the Romanian political class, civil society and media to the unification of Moldova and Romania.[6]