During more than a decade of independence, the Republic of Moldova, being geographically situated in the center of Europe, has hardly defined its national interest, seeking an advantageous position on the international political arena. The interest of the middle term state found itself in a tortuous process of development, in search of its own identity. This article is an analysis of the national interest position is an analysis of the national interest position of the Republic of Moldova between the Community of Independent States and the European Union. The recent parliamentary elections of March 6 as well as those presidential of April 4, 2005 marked the irreversible character of the country’s national interest, that of joining the European Union, a big continent of universal values, of economic freedom, of interethnic and political tolerance and of a increasingly important social responsibility. For the first time a competitive process brought a compromise between political opponents, who become committed to following the path of European integration and alienation from the Russian “orbit”, because the CIS has no chances to be reduced to what has always been in reality – a now-functional structure with no perspectives.