However, the mostly right-wing pro-European opposition parties, including those that supported the unification of Moldova and Romania, had a more skeptical approach, viewing the protocol as insignificant and even as a "surrender" by the Moldovan negotiators.
[2] In 2017, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) claimed that progress on two points of the package had been made.
Wolf Dietrich Heim, the then representative of the OSCE on the Moldovan–Transnistrian talks, said that diplomas from Transnistrian universities had been successfully certified and that telecommunication between Moldova and Transnistria had been facilitated.
[4] On the same year, the bridge at Gura Bîcului was reopened during an event attended by the then Prime Minister of Moldova Pavel Filip and the then President of Transnistria Vadim Krasnoselsky, as well as several international observers.
[7] Furthermore, a new meeting of the 5+2 format in Bratislava, Slovakia, brought no new concrete changes regarding the Berlin Plus package, with 2019 thus being a year with no major developments.