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MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry announces the launch of the national campaign “Cumpar BUN de-acasa” – an initiative that invites Moldovan citizens to choose local products: both during winter holidays and throughout the year.
Public procurement accounts for about 14% of the EU’s GDP, making it one of the most powerful tools for the EU to shape markets and move towards its political goals. However, a recent analysis by the European Commission has confirmed what many governments and companies had already guessed: the current system is not helping to simplify public spending procedures, make them more strategic and green. More than 75% of public contracts still do not include environmental parameters, so it is not surprising that current spending is so poorly aligned with the EU’s stated industrial and climate goals.
The 220 projects launched in July this year under the “Europe Close” program are joined by another 133 approved for funding by the National Council for the Coordination of Regional and Local Development.
The state recognizes existing economic inequalities and is taking steps to mitigate them. However, the transition to a more predictable economy requires an end to the war.
There are seemingly contradictory trends. In 2024, the absolute (monetary) poverty rate in Moldova increased by 2 p.p. compared to 2023 and amounted to 34%. In other words, one third of the Moldovan population lived on less than 3493 lei (€181) per month per person. At the same time, the share of the population living in multidimensional poverty decreased by 1 p.p. and amounted to 26%. This means that about a quarter of the population suffers from insufficient access to such benefits of civilization as health care, education, quality housing and decent jobs.
According to the World Bank, Moldova has the lowest energy consumption per capita in Europe. In 2022, energy consumption per capita in Moldova will be only 1.42 tons of oil equivalent (toe).
The United Nations estimates the total cost of Ukraine’s post-war recovery and reconstruction at $524 billion over the next decade. These figures are up to date as of the end of 2024, with the cost estimates increasing every year. New figures are expected by the end of this year.
The Organ Hall hosted an Eight Hands Piano Concert on December 4, a one-of-a-kind event. Two quartets participated: “Baynov Piano Ensemble” from Germany and Moldovan musicians Anatoly Lapicus, Iurie Mahovici, Inna Hatipova and Irina Guzenko.
The first phase of the Super League, which determined the top six teams, is over. “Petrocub became the “Winter Champion”, having suffered only one defeat in 21 matches. All clubs, except for Politehnica-UTM and Spartanii-Sportul, will continue to fight for the trophy in the spring. They will compete for a return to the elite with the top four clubs from the first phase of Ligue 1.
In the traditional report prepared by the experts of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Transition Report for 2025-26, entitled “Brave old world” (Brave old world), aging and shrinking working-age population are named as the main challenges for the countries of the Old World.
In spite of significant shortfall of fruit harvest due to spring frosts, as well as reduction of their quality due to summer drought and autumn precipitation, prices for many types of products of the fruit growing sector increased. Accordingly, even in the conditions of physical decrease of exports, their financial indicators increased. This was much and colorfully discussed in the last days of November within the XI annual conference “Fruit Business of Moldova”. And, perhaps, for the first time in its long history, the conference started with singing a beautiful and optimistic song about the richness of the Moldovan land.
Ask a room of central bankers how many of them want a less stable financial system, and you will find that few (if any) will raise their hand. Ask how many of them support intrusive, costly supervision, endless box-filling and process-heavy enforcement, and the result will be the same. This contradiction is at the heart of the Basel Committee’s recent statement, supported by all members, including U.S. members, calling for the Basel III rules to be implemented “fully and consistently.”
The trends observed on the real estate markets of Moldova and neighboring Romania in recent years show sufficient similarities. Although the factors that determine the situation in this sphere do not always coincide.
Income inequality is growing in Moldova: the top 20% of the population in 2024 received almost 42% of total income. The share of the poorest 20% remains almost unchanged. Experts believe that reducing the gap will require not only increasing minimum wages and pensions, but also, in the medium term, implementing elements of progressive taxation and social reforms.
This year, the topic of the well-being of the country and its citizens is particularly acute. Moreover, in different aspects – from the multidirectional arguments of politicians to the country’s ratings that pop up from time to time. It has also become central for the expert community: the annual conference MACRO-2025, organized by the independent analytical center “Expert-Grup”, focused on the issues of reducing income inequality and economic divergence of the country on the way to Europe.
Three new clusters will appear in Moldova in the coming years. This was announced at the second National Forum of Clusters, which took place in Chisinau.
On Tuesday evening, the Ministry of Finance made public the draft Budget Law for 2026. And on Thursday, at an extraordinary meeting, the government approved it, although initially it was decided to give the social partners an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the document and express their opinion on it. Especially since it was developed with a serious violation of the budget calendar.
In recent years, the issue of energy supply has been on the agenda, and before the beginning of each winter season it acquires certain alarming signs. But this winter Moldova meets surprisingly calmly – without hints of another crisis and without heated political discussions around the problem of gas and electricity supplies. Is it so, have all the pitfalls in the energy sector been overcome? Energy Minister Dorin Zhungietu answered these and other questions to Logos Press.
A modern vocational training center, TechZone, created by FEZ “Balti”, will be launched in Chisinau on December 5. The project aims to overcome one of the key obstacles to the growth of the industrial sector – the lack of qualified labor force and practical skills-oriented educational infrastructure.
Calls to reduce the use of fossil fuels are becoming impossible to ignore. At the UN Climate Change Conference in Brazil (COP30), major producers are being asked to start planning for a gradual and orderly phase-out of oil, gas and coal.
