Lost in (Moldovan) translation

No doubt the mistake will be blamed on the lawyer-linguists, but it seems that the EU might have committed a bit of blunder when it signed a visa-facilitation agreement with Moldova.
Too late, the Council of Ministers has noticed that the agreement includes a reference to “the Moldovan language”. That should have sounded alarm bells because general opinion in the EU holds that the Moldovan language is no different from Romanian and so should not be given separate recognition.
Moldovans may speak Romanian with a sweet accent but many people think it is the same accent that the folk in the north of Romania have.
EU officials are appalled at the prospect, should Moldova ever join the EU, of having to add another language, even more wasteful of resources – translators, interpreters, interpreters' booths – than the split between Czech and Slovak. (Mind you, it wouldn't take too long to translate the acquis communautaire from Romanian to ‘Moldovan'.)
An EU official grumbled: “It's as if Belgium asked for Flemish to be accepted as an official EU language because the accent is different from Dutch.”
The view in Chisinau is different, where the authorities dislike any mention of cultural and linguistic ties between Romania and Moldova (which was part of the Principality of Moldavia, one of Romania's provinces, until 1812, when it was annexed by the Russians, and then again in 1918-40, when it was again annexed, by the Soviet Union). Vladimir Voronin, the president of Moldova, said in a recent interview that Romania was “Europe's last empire” and accused its politicians of trying to attempt to influence internal matters in the young republic. Voronin and his communist party colleagues worry that Romania's recent entry in the EU will make reunification more attractive to his citizens – and that his state might be absorbed into a greater Romania, which would cost him his job.