Александр Романов
This week between January 19 and January 23, 2026, more than 80 of the top 100 cryptocurrencies showed declines, making market participants visibly alarmed, according to Logos Press.
In normal urban and state planning, administrative reform is a tool, not a goal, and without taking into account this fundamental principle, Moldova will get an “optimized desert” instead of an administrative-territorial reform, Logos Press reported.
A trade war with the U.S. would be a disaster for Europe, which is already suffering from stagnation, but in the long run could have an extremely negative impact on the U.S. economy as well, according to Logos Press.
US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose duties of 200% on French wine and champagne after an aide to French President Emmanuel Macron said France has “no intention” of accepting an invitation to join a “Peace Council” on Gaza, Logos Press reported.
In 2025, China’s birth rate fell to 5.63 per thousand people, reaching the lowest level in the history of the national statistic, which has been kept since 1949, according to Logos Press.
The heads of state and government of the European Union countries are going to hold an emergency summit in Brussels on January 22 on the situation around Greenland and the development of a common position on the introduction by U.S. President Donald Trump of additional duties of 10% against eight EU member states because of sending their military to Greenland, reports Logos Press.
In December 2025, the annual inflation rate for the EU as a whole fell to 2.3%, but Romania’s rate was unchanged from November and remains the highest in the EU at 8.6%, Logos Press reported.
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in the UK and the Institute of Environmental Geology in France have created a new map of Antarctica using a modeling technique called Ice Flow Perturbation Analysis (IFPA), Logos Press reports.
In recognition of the special contribution of the first Moldovan Foreign Minister Nicolae Țîu to the formation of Moldovan diplomacy, a conference room in the Foreign Ministry building was named after him, according to Logos Press.
Ukraine is taking an average of 40 million cubic meters of gas per day from its underground gas storage facilities (UGS), which is 18 million m3 less than the average daily withdrawal in the corresponding period over the past three years, Logos Press reported.
Based on the results of the post-customs audit and follow-up checks during the period from January 2 to January 16, 2026, the Customs Service revealed additional customs obligations of economic entities totaling 3.29 million lei, Logos Press reported.
On January 16, the Council for the Review of Investments Important for State Security decided to impose a fine of 5% of the turnover, but not more than 5 million lei, on Lukoil-Moldova Ltd. for non-compliance with the Council’s decision of December 14, as well as to set a 5-day deadline for its execution, Logos Press reported.
