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Moldova intends to introduce regulation of employment through so-called temporary employment agencies. The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has drafted a bill amending certain normative acts, through which Directive 2008/104/EC on employment through a temporary employment agency and Directive 91/383/EEC, supplementing Moldovan labor legislation with measures aimed at ensuring the safety and health of workers who have concluded fixed-term or temporary employment contracts, will be transposed into national legislation.
Over the past two months, financial investors have come up with a new trading strategy based on a simple rule – TACO. This is an acronym for the phrase “Trump Always Chickens Out”, meaning “Trump is always scared”. America’s president threatens to impose huge duties on imports from friendly and hostile countries or fire the chairman of the Federal Reserve, but then backs down because the uncompromising scourge of the market forces him to exercise discipline. Then Trump switches to duties again, and then backs off again.
The United Nations has identified the causes of the world’s falling birth rate. The answer lies in the freedom of reproductive choice, which only economic stability, decent health and confidence in the future provide, not today’s access to services. Many people are deprived of this choice, and Moldova is no exception.
The ecosystem of social entrepreneurship has started to emerge in Moldova recently. Only two or three years ago, about 50 NGOs and 9 limited liability companies were working in this field. Now their number has grown several times and continues to increase actively. Not least due to the financial support of international development partners.
Measures to legalize the rental housing market, the development of cashless payments and a reasonable tax rate are factors that encourage landlords to register rental contracts with tenants and pay tax on the income received.
The share of external and internal borrowings and grants in the state budget of last and this year reached 31%. This is 10% more than on average in 2013-2020. Such statistics is given by the former chairman of the parliamentary commission on economy, budget and finance Volodymyr Golovatyuk, commenting on the results of budget execution for four months of the current year. The report as of April 30, 2025 was released by the Finance Ministry late last week.
The volume of assets to be managed by institutional investors by 2030 should reach 6 billion lei, compared to the current zero indicator. The number of non-professional investors should grow from the current 144 individuals to 100 thousand. And the stock exchange capitalization of capital market players should reach 13.84 billion against 11.44 billion at present.
During the years of independence, medium-sized businesses appeared in Moldovan winemaking (some of them even became large ones). And in recent years, many small and micro-enterprises have been established, as a legal framework favorable for amateur winemakers to become professionals has been created. Among the clients of maib, the largest bank in the country, there are also plenty of them. Ion Vrabie, maib’s regional director and head of HUB Sud, tells us how they are dealt with.
Grants worth 22.3 million lei were awarded on 3 June to 80 local companies with the assistance of the Organization for Development of Entrepreneurship (ODA). According to the organization, these funds will allow attracting investments worth 42.1 million lei in the Moldovan economy. They will be used mainly for the purchase of modern equipment and digitalization of processes.
Politehnica-UTM” (Chisinau), formed on the basis of “Saksan” (Ceadir-Lunga, ATU Gagauzia), will take part in the 2025/26 Football Super League season. The club left the Moldovan championship in 2008 and managed to return thanks to the rebranding announced by the Radu Rebez Football Academy.
The wine.md company (it owns the wine library and tasting room of the same name), which has already organized two festivals – Wine Picnic and Vin de Autor – has created a new format of the wine festival – Wine Park. It was tested on May 30-31.
An example of how all norms of the building legislation are violated is a residential building in Durlesti, in whose attic there was a fire recently. The National Inspectorate for Technical Supervision (INST) published the first results of the inspection. As it turned out, violations were detected at all stages of the investment process.
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz took office on May 6, 2025, few expected the swiftness with which he began to reshape the country’s foreign policy. But the tone has unequivocally changed. Germany’s long era of strategic uncertainty is coming to an end.
The area of grain corn sown for the harvest-2025 has shrunk to about 300 thousand hectares. Last year, this crop occupied 464 thousand hectares in the Republic of Moldova.
Corruption remains a pervasive problem that threatens the rule of law, democracy and social justice. It undermines public trust in institutions, distorts fair competition and hinders economic and social development. As the methods of corruption become more sophisticated, the need for strong, transparent and accountable institutions increases.
If we listen to the officials from the authorities, Moldovan parliamentarians and European deputies and commissioners, it was not rain from the sky, but a real “downpour of money” that poured down on Moldova during the whole May. The financial rainfall is estimated at 3.4 billion euros in total, even if some of it is still declarative in nature.
On May 31, 2025, the capital’s air harbor celebrates exactly 30 years since it became an independent enterprise and certified as an international.
The need for domestic borrowings and the possibility to buy back expensive instruments makes the Ministry of Finance constantly maneuver and search for the most pragmatic approaches to work with government bonds. The policy of government debt management in the domestic market, as experts believe, will proceed from necessary and sufficient, cooling the demand for profitable government securities.
In January-April, Moldova exported $69.5 million worth of wine products, which is 3% less than in the same period last year. The decline could be explained by the general impact of the global economic crisis, but in this case it is not about our industry.
The first professional tennis tournament in the history of Moldova was successfully completed. Participants and guests of “Moldova Open 2025” noted the high level of organization, and ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) intends to consider holding higher level tournaments in our country. Will Moldova be able to become an arena of struggle of the leading tennis players of the world? What should be done for this purpose? These are the questions facing the organizers of the tournament.
