The Competition Council has drafted a resolution to approve the Guidelines on the Concept of Economic Concentration—a document that will provide detailed guidance on the application of rules governing the control of economic concentrations.
Otokar, a Turkish manufacturer of land systems, has taken an important step toward expanding its presence in Europe by acquiring the Romanian company Automecanica S.A. This investment will establish Otokar’s first production facility in the European Union and support local production of COBRA II 4×4 tactical wheeled light armored vehicles for the Romanian Ministry of National Defense and, potentially, for the Moldovan Armed Forces.
180 Moldovan citizens worked as operators at a Ukrainian call center set up to defraud people, primarily residents of Romania.
In the first half of the year, the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA) awarded grants to 383 companies, resulting in total investments of more than 268 million lei.
In 60 of the world’s 197 countries, the proportion of the population living in rural areas exceeds that of the urban population. Moldova is among them; 56.4% of its residents live outside cities.
In June, the adjusted volume of transactions in “stablecoins” reached a record high of $1.79 trillion. This is according to data from Visa’s Allium-powered analytics dashboard.
Romania became the largest recipient of the latest tranche of funding from the European Union’s Modernization Fund, receiving 636.9 million euros for investments in the energy sector out of a total of 2.5 billion euros, allocated to 11 EU member states.
From June 29 to July 5, 2026, revenue from the Customs Service to the state budget totaled more than 858.8 million lei, which is 103% higher than the target for the reporting period.
On July 5, FIFA made an unprecedented decision to suspend the suspension of U.S. national team player Folarin Balogun for a red card.
Horse sales in Russia have surged amid the fuel crisis.
At 10:00 a.m. today, 145 power plants operating under free-market conditions were shut down because they were unable to sell their electricity through OPEM.
Recent developments in Moldova’s domestic political arena can rightly be described as significant, and one such event was the resignation of the country’s Prime Minister, Alexandru Munteanu, which President Maia Sandu accepted a few days ago. As the head of state stated, on July 6 she will hold consultations with parliamentary factions regarding the election of a new head of government.
On U.S. Independence Day, the American leader decided to make a scathing remark directed at his closest allies.
In 2025, Moldova ranked 95th out of 197 countries worldwide in a salary ranking.
The Russian Center for Science and Culture (Russian House) in the Moldovan capital has officially ceased operations. The Russian Embassy in Moldova announced this on July 4.
In June, the state-owned company Energocom purchased 41.3 million euros worth of electricity, a 12% increase from May, amid a heat wave and a sharp rise in prices on the stock exchange.
Moldova’s leadership intends to finally recognize the Chinese market as strategically important for the country and to actively increase exports of domestic products to China.
The Public Services Agency (PSA) has radically simplified the rules for registering imported vehicles. The new procedures will take effect at the end of June 2026.
The EU agreed to open the sixth negotiation cluster, “External Relations,” with Moldova and Ukraine on July 14. All 27 EU member states supported this decision.
In this cycle, approximately $697 billion in new capital generated a return of about 689%, compared with previous cycles, in which a significantly smaller amount of capital yielded returns of up to 50,000%.
