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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.
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.
