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The European Union last week announced a new package of sanctions in an attempt to increase pressure on Russian Federation for its military operation in Ukraine. The EU hopes that the sanctions will reduce Russian energy revenues. The punitive measures will also put pressure on companies and ships involved in the transportation of Russian oil. In addition, the sanctions target oil products and include lowering the price threshold for oil. The package also includes sanctions measures against Russian companies and banks, as well as against the military-industrial complex.
The electoral period of parliamentary elections has started in Moldova. Formally, the election campaign will start only on August 29, but it feels like it has been going on for a long time. Back in May, the government launched an information campaign “Moldova Poate” (“Moldova can”). The State Chancellery signed a contract with the winner of the tender – SCP PARSEC. The initial estimated total value of the contract was 5 million lei, while the actual value was 4 million 280 thousand lei. According to the contract, the company undertook to ensure about 1 million YouTube videos, more than 200 thousand posters and at least 65 billboards throughout the country.
In order to establish an order and provide clear and understandable rules in the field of development and application of territorial planning documentation, the government at a meeting on July 21 approved a regulation on the state expertise of the said documentation.
Technologies are firmly entering all spheres of social and economic life. At the same time, their development is so rapid that the authorities do not have time to fit them into the regulatory and legal framework. New payment instruments are especially difficult to legalize. Recently, the government has opened the legislative floodgates with regard to PayPal (and not only).
London has finally approved the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, a £38 billion (roughly $51 billion) megaproject. It will be one of the largest energy investments in Europe in decades.
Moldova will develop an investment map to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. This was reported by UNDP Moldova, noting that UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Moldova Seher Ariner met with the Director General of the Investment Agency of Moldova, Natalia Bejan, and participated in the roundtable of the Agency’s Advisory Committee.
Last April, it was announced that the president of the Moldovan Football Federation (FMF), Leonid Olejnichenko, had held talks with representatives of the Romanian company that had been selected to conduct a feasibility study for the National Stadium project. A few months later, the project was discussed at the governmental level and promised to present the feasibility study publicly within a year. A year has passed and Dan Perchun, Minister of Education and Research, reports that the project is still at the pre-feasibility study stage. Has the relevance of the project waned?
A 25 km long section of the railroad on the Iasi Ungheni line, including a bridge over the Prut River, will be modernized and electrified with European financial support. The total cost of the project will amount to 33.8 million euros.
In Moldova, the rape harvest will be completed next week. By the end of the harvesting campaign, preliminary estimates of the production of this crop have increased, while the domestic and foreign trade context has changed significantly. Is it for the better? It is an open question.
“Bomb threat! Leave the premises immediately,” a security officer yelled at me during a “Principles First” conference of moderate Republicans gathering in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 22. We learned a little later that the threat came in the form of an untraceable email that said four homemade bombs had been planted “in honor of the January 6 hostages recently released by Emperor Trump.”
The AIS MIAD (Information System for Management and Issuance of Authorization Documents), once introduced with great pomp, still does not pay back the resources invested in it. Such conclusions were reached by the Court of Accounts of the Republic of Moldova, having assessed the implementation of recommendations by the agencies.
Warehouse real estate has shown the greatest resilience in recent years, especially after the pandemic and the start of a military operation in a neighboring country, compared to other segments.
