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On some aspects of the financial statements of the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization for 2024, the Court of Accounts could not decide: “Are these accounting errors or signs of fraud?”. Difficulties arose when it came to relations with the real economy.
At its sitting on April 17, the Parliament approved in the second reading amendments to the state budget for 2025. They increase its deficit by 4.01 billion lei (+28.9%) to a record figure of almost 18 billion lei, or 5.1% of GDP.
Exactly three years ago, in April 2022, Moldova imposed a ban on online trade in e-cigarettes. At that time, their official imports reached 20 million lei, or one third of the real turnover. Logos Press decided to find out how the situation on the vape market has changed since then, and how effectively their sales channels are regulated.
During the period of cleaning up before Easter, many people burn old tires, which causes serious damage to the environment. To prevent and extinguish tire burning fires, environmental inspectors conducted 75 inspections. A total of 67 cases were documented. Each of them will be fined, 11 receipts have already been issued for a total of 110 thousand lei.
On April 12 and 13, the State Russian Drama Theater named after A. P. Chekhov hosted the premiere of the play “The Process” based on the novel by F. Kafka, directed by Oleg Mardar. The performance offered the audience a new format – a synthesis of plasticity, choreography, acrobatics and dramatic art.
As expected, following the results of two matches of the 1/4 finals of the Moldovan Football Cup, “Sheriff” and “Zimbru” secured their participation in the next round, in which they will meet face-to-face. The other winners of the semi-final were “Milsami” and “Spartanii-Sportul” – the club from the village of Selemet, Cimislia district, reached the semi-finals of the tournament for the first time.
Moldovan athletes won one silver and five bronze medals at the European Olympic Wrestling Championships held in Bratislava (Slovakia). Freestyle wrestlers failed to reach the podium, losing in the bouts for bronze medals.
Exports of Moldovan wine products in 2024 showed the best result in the last ten years, reaching $234.7 million, which is 22% more than in 2023. The lion’s share of revenues ($154 million) came from bottled wines and divines.
In the 2024 season, wineries in Moldova processed 179 thousand tons of grapes, which is 32% less than in the previous year. From this amount, 11.7 million dal of wine materials were produced (-34%). These data were presented by the National Bureau of Grapes and Wine (NBG&W) at the sectoral republican conference on the results of work for the last year.
The topic of subsidizing the agro-industrial sector this spring has been on the newscasts of RM with encouraging regularity. The Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture AIPA reports on the amounts paid to farmers. The Parliament, at the Government’s request, amends the state budget in order to replenish the Fund for Agricultural and Rural Subsidies-2025. The bill on new principles of financing and monitoring of the agricultural sector is passed in the first reading. It seems that the work is boiling and everything is in order with subsidies for farmers, despite their background murmurings. But is it so?
Long-term meteorological forecasts in times of global climate transformation are interesting, thankful, but not very reliable. Nevertheless, the world information space has already repeatedly announced that the coming summer will be among the three hottest in the history of observations. Whether it is so, or nature will have mercy – time will show. Nevertheless, in any case, in order to get economically significant harvest, it makes sense for Moldovan farmers to sow drought-resistant crops – “camels”. One of such crops is grain sorghum.
Another energy efficiency project has recently been launched in Moldova: the EU has allocated about €143 million to modernize the district heating system in more than 1,600 buildings in Chisinau. The project involves the installation of 2,510 individual heating points and the conversion of centrally heated houses to a horizontal heat supply system.
