Romania and France back aid for Moldova

French President Emmanuel Macron said more than 100 million euro were raised at a donors conference Monday to help assist Europe’s poorest country, Moldova. Monday's international aid conference in Paris is aimed at "concrete and immediate assistance" for the land-locked former Soviet republic, according to the French Foreign Ministry.

At the end of the conference, Nicu Popescu, Moldova's Foreign Minister said the money would help it provide support for Ukrainian refugees as well as bolstering social cohesion and stability in his country. Two previous conferences for Moldova this year raised hundreds of millions of euro.