It is not a new treaty. It is an interview, on Spain’s National Day. Ambassador José Antonio Hernández Pérez-Solórzano, based in Bucharest and accredited also to Chișinău, spoke to Moldpres. Spain, he said, can share how it trains judges, how it runs courts, how it digitises files and how it lets people reach a hearing. On corruption: investigating economic crime and recovering assets taken from crime. Moldova1 picked up the line. No money package was announced. It is an offer of experience.

Cooperation, he said, runs on two tracks. Ministries: in September 2025 Félix Bolaños, Spain’s justice minister, met in Madrid Veronica Mihailov-Moraru, then Moldova’s justice minister. They talked digitisation, anti-corruption, legal cooperation. They signed a memorandum between ministries. Judicial self-government: talks on another memorandum, between Moldova’s Superior Council of Magistracy and Spain’s General Council of the Judiciary, are finished. The text still needs translation into Romanian and Spanish and an electronic signature. It is not signed. It is close.

The ambassador set a condition: Spanish experience must be cut to Moldovan needs, not copied. “What matters is that these contacts give rise to practical cooperation.” The aim, he said: an independent, professional, accessible justice, “the guarantee that the law applies equally to all.” That is the formula. It is not an assessment of Chișinău’s courtrooms.

2026 is also the year Spain marks 40 years since joining the European Communities. The diplomat drew the parallel: Spain was transformed then; when he looks at Moldova he sees not only a candidate but a future partner in the same project. The Chișinău reception included, among others, Interior Minister Daniella Misail-Nichitin and Energy Minister Dorin Junghietu. That is National Day protocol, not a reform conference.

In Madrid in 2025 Bolaños also spoke of whistleblowers, violence against women, electoral law, mediation. The visit went to the Supreme Court, the asset-recovery agency, prisons, digitisation. Those are the doors opened then. This interview repeats them; it does not replace them. No money, no legislative calendar, no “Spain takes over the reform.”

Moldova needs justice to close chapters with the EU. Others say that, in other texts. Here an ambassador offers a swap of experience and a council-to-council memorandum still unsigned. Until it is signed and until it shows in the rooms, it remains National Day talk.

Image: Luis García (Zaqarbal), seat of Spain’s General Council of the Judiciary, Madrid, 16 August 2015, CC BY-SA 3.0 ES, Wikimedia Commons. The photograph shows the Spanish body in the still-unsigned memorandum, not a Chișinău courtroom.

Sources consulted: O garanție că legea se aplică în mod egal tuturor — Moldova 1; Spania este dispusă să împărtășească experiența în formarea magistraților — MOLDPRES.