Vasile Tofan
The document identifies restoring economic growth, accelerating European integration, and reforming public administration as the main priorities of the future government.
Economy and European Integration
The introduction to the program emphasizes that Moldova should become “the most business-friendly country in Europe,” and economic growth is to be achieved by stimulating private initiative, investment, exports, innovation, and increased labor productivity.
The government intends to reduce administrative barriers to business, simplify regulations, and ensure more predictable conditions for doing business.
According to the document, every new regulation must have a clearly justified public benefit, and the state must eliminate excessive administrative procedures.
Moldova’s accession to the European Union remains one of the program’s central priorities. The document states that the National Program for EU Accession and the European Growth Plan will be implemented as a single program for the modernization of the state and the economy.
The government intends to make maximum use of the 1.9 billion euros provided for in the EU Growth Plan, directing these funds toward reforms, investment projects, and enhancing the capacity of state institutions to effectively absorb European funds.
The target is to prepare for the signing of Moldova’s Accession Treaty to the European Union by the end of 2028.
The government promises to streamline the state
A separate section of the program is devoted to public administration reform.
The authors of the document propose reducing overlapping functions within government agencies, expanding the digitization of services, increasing transparency in the management of state property, and shifting to a performance-based evaluation of government managers based on results achieved.
At the same time, the plan calls for strengthening the financial autonomy of local authorities, simplifying the country’s administrative structure, and encouraging the voluntary consolidation of settlements.
Key Challenges and Five Priorities
The program notes that the country’s economy is not growing fast enough to catch up with the European Union. Among the main problems cited are low GDP growth rates, a decline in the number of taxpayers, a labor shortage, demographic decline, and a significant gap between imports and exports.
The authors of the document also point to the need to reform education and healthcare, improve the effectiveness of social protection, combat corruption, strengthen security, and adapt the economy to climate change.
The future cabinet of ministers has identified five main areas of focus:
– restoring economic growth by supporting entrepreneurship, investment, and exports;
– accelerating integration into the European Union;
– creating a more efficient and digital public administration;
– strengthening security, the judicial system, and the protection of democratic institutions;
– improving the quality of life through the development of human capital, the labor market, and social policy.
On the eve of the program’s review in parliament, Prime Minister-designate Vasile Tofan stated that the future government intends to focus on “relaunching the economy, supporting entrepreneurs, and creating a more efficient state,” as well as accelerating the country’s European integration process.
