The Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Moldova and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), a member of the World Bank Group, have signed an agreement to provide grant funding of up to $1.7 million to prepare a project for the construction of new, highly efficient thermal and electric power generation facilities for Termoelectrica S.A.
The Moldovan Armed Forces will receive more than 100 Senator armored vehicles, manufactured by the Canadian company Roshel, as part of the European Union’s defense assistance program.
Polaris Airlines is in the process of obtaining an Air Operator Certificate (AOC), a document required to operate commercial flights.
The French Senate has passed a long-debated bill to combat “ultra-fast fashion,” targeting e-commerce platforms, including Shein, Temu, and AliExpress, which are based in China.
The supply of tourism services in the Republic of Moldova will suffer, prices for services may rise, and businesses in the tourism and hospitality industries will face additional financial pressure if the standard 20% VAT rate is applied to food service and lodging.
The postal services market in Moldova continued to grow in 2025 amid an increase in the number of international mailings and the expansion of the parcel and package delivery segment.
Nova Post has opened its largest logistics center in Moldova, near Chisinau, expanding its delivery network with a facility capable of processing up to 10,000 packages per hour, the company’s press office announced on June 30.
Officers from the Customs Service’s mobile unit stopped a Crafter vehicle—which had already entered our country—for a customs inspection in the vicinity of the city of Leușen. The minibus was traveling from the United Kingdom and was carrying several unaccompanied parcels.
Since 2022, Ukrainian refugees have contributed approximately 1.6 billion Moldovan lei (more than $90 million) to Moldova’s state budget in the form of taxes and social security contributions.
Authorities in Romania, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine dismantled a network suspected of investment fraud as a result of a joint operation on June 25, 2026. A total of 25 searches were conducted: 8 in Romania and 17 in Ukraine. The operations also targeted call centers used by the group. EUROJUST and EUROPOL participated in the operation, which involved prosecutors and police officers from the three countries.
Up to 80% of cryptocurrency platforms will suspend operations in Europe due to the entry into force of the MiCA regulation on crypto-assets.
U.S. President Donald Trump has demanded that companies that sell gasoline in the United States immediately lower their prices.
Spain had been developing renewable electricity so aggressively that it eventually found itself with a surplus.
Thanks to the digital transformation of government services, starting and running a business in the Republic of Moldova is becoming easier and easier. Today, entrepreneurs have online access to the services they need to start and run a business through the EVO app and portal, without having to visit service counters or use paper documents.
A non-resident foreign national was detained for violating customs laws after she failed to declare the goods she was carrying during a customs inspection upon entering the country.
500 million Romanian lei (nearly 2 billion Moldovan lei) have been allocated for the electrification of the railway between Iași and the border with the Republic of Moldova. Half of the project will be financed by European funds (under the Connecting Europe Facility program), and the remainder will be covered by Romania’s national budget.
During trading on Monday, June 29, the market price of Brent crude, the benchmark North Sea oil, began to rise amid renewed mutual missile strikes between the U.S. and Iran in the Middle East.
The 400-kV Bălți–Suceava power line, dubbed the “Line of Sustainability,” will be built by the Turkish company SA-RA, which won an international tender; the contract between SA-RA and the state-owned company Moldelectrica was signed last Friday.
Using land for both electricity generation and food production is a promising solution.
In 2025–2026, Moldova was hit by a wave of telephone scams. Using various pretexts and schemes, scammers swindled millions of lei from citizens. The vast majority of these calls originated from abroad.
