The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment and DAZN have announced a successful operation to shut down Calcio, the most popular live sports piracy site in Italy. According to ACE, Calcio received more than 123 million visits during the past 12 months, with Italians responsible for six million of those visits every month. Italy’s Favorite Sports Piracy Site, Run from MoldovaThe circumstances of Calcio’s closure are completely absent from the press release. EU Membership and the Future of MoldovaFollowing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in March 2022 the Republic of Moldova applied for EU membership. In the context of full EU membership, something similar may be viewed as an obligation.