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There are reasons to hope that this year Moldova will have a very good harvest of oilseed crops. The area under crops has noticeably increased: about 100 thousand hectares have been allocated for rape, which is many times more than last year, sunflower – more than 420 thousand hectares. At the moment, agronomists assess the condition of crops as “good and very good”.
In early June, after finishing his job as a “special government employee,” Ilon Musk almost immediately began criticizing Donald Trump and Republican congressmen’s bill known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The package, which includes big budget deficit spending and tax cuts, would bankrupt America, Musk warned, calling on senators and congressmen to “kill this bill.”
Are you quietly perplexed when account maintenance in different banks is called differently? When a free pension or social security account is debited every month? When transactions are priced ahead of other countries’ payment systems? You are not alone…
Export of goods from Moldova decreased by 11.3% year-on-year in the period from January to April and amounted to $1077.1 million. At the same time, import of foreign goods increased by 16.2% and reached $3407.9 million. Accordingly, the trade balance deficit increased by 35.7% compared to the same period last year and amounted to $2330.8 million.
Iurie Humeniuc is a man who turns abandoned wastelands into forests. He is the founder and coordinator of Impadurim Moldova, an initiative that restores forest cover on degraded land. In the last five years, his team has planted more than 300,000 trees across the country. In an interview for Logos Press, he talked about the problems of Moldovan forestry, budgets and prices, and why state programs are not effective.
According to the report of the association ASAM (Association of Consultants in Management of Moldova), prepared last year on the results of 2023, there are 765 consulting companies in Moldova, employing 1842 specialists. The volume of the local management consulting market at that time amounted to 47.2 million euros.
Street retail has always been the most active segment on the commercial real estate market of Chisinau. Premises for this type of activity have always been in short supply, which explains the high rental and sale prices of such areas.
Two groups of first-degree administrative-territorial units have approved the councils’ decisions on voluntary unification of mayoralties. The first one includes the city of Leova and the adjacent villages of Sirma, Toquile-Reducani and Serata-Razes. The second group consists of the village of Călinesti, the commune of Ketris and the village of Hînceşti in the district of Falesti. These changes in Moldova’s administrative-territorial system were approved by the Cabinet of Ministers on June 18.
From June 20, interested political parties can start submitting applications to the Central Election Commission to register electoral blocs for the parliamentary elections on September 28, 2025.
From June 1, 2025 in Moldova, technical inspection of personal vehicles less than 10 years old will be carried out every two years instead of annually. For buses, cabs, ambulances, and cars more than 10 years old, it is mandatory to have a technical inspection once a year, instead of after six months, as now.
According to the ranking of the largest bulk wine exporting countries for 2024, compiled by the American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) based on UN Comtrade data, Moldova ranks 12th.
Moldova is experiencing a changing migration pattern due to various factors, including economic and social conditions. The main trends include population decline, outflow of young people and increase in internal migration.
Two young people from Moldova have turned a childhood hobby into a business that pleases children and adults. Anastasia and Eugeni Shapovalov, who are passionate about tropical butterflies, opened the BeFly butterfly garden two years ago in the commune of Barnova, Iasi County. And by the 2025 season, they expanded it with a terrace and a playground with a climbing area.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova, in May, compared to the level of the previous month, consumer (retail) food prices increased insignificantly – only by 1%. However, compared to their level at the beginning of 2025, the increase is more pronounced – plus 6.5%. And compared to the prices in May 2024, food prices rose by 9.7%.
Against the backdrop of the worsening climate crisis, the EU and the UK are gradually introducing the “Border Carbon Adjustment Mechanism” (CBAM for short). They present it as a key instrument that will link trade with climate policy. However, the CBAM’s ambitious goals are causing growing discontent.
According to a new study conducted by Compare the Market AU, Chisinau ranks 8th in the ranking of the best European cities for “workcation” – a format of work when an employee combines it with a vacation in another city or even country.
A package of amendments to the tax legislation proposed by the Ministry of Finance is expected to be approved by the end of the mandate of the current parliament.
The internal audit of the WKF Moldova Karate-do Federation found gross violations of the organization’s activity, falsification of financial documents and facts of misuse of funds allocated by the government in 2023-2024. Representatives of the clubs that are part of the WKF Moldova structure declared their non-involvement and call for the prosecution of the Federation’s president Oleg Abalin.
The National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova issued curious data on the Moldovan labor market in the first quarter of 2025. In the total number of registered vacancies (about 33 thousand), the share of agriculture is only 2.5%, with only 917 offers. Logos Press correspondent asked the opinion of leaders and members of non-governmental organizations of agrarian profile about the reasons for such a modest demand for workers in the once very crowded sector of the real economy of Moldova. We also asked what professions the Moldovan agribusiness still needs.
Valeriu Chitan devoted his professional career to public finance, passing through all levels of the service hierarchy: from economist to Minister of Finance.
