The progress of preparations for European integration was assessed at 3 points. The evaluation of the second independent report on monitoring Moldova’s implementation of the European Commission’s recommendations was carried out by the independent analytical center Expert-Grup. The pain points are everywhere, we present some of them.
A total of 97 million lei for 90 projects will be allocated from the health insurance funds to finance projects of modernization of medical institutions in 2025. Some winners have already been identified, Logos Press reported.
After a significant increase in official reserve assets in June, when the external accounts received a significant amount of borrowed resources, they fell to 5.044 billion euros in July 2025, or by 26.72 million euros,” Logos Press reported.
The IMF expertise confirms the image of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) as an “advanced and transparent institution”, with a modern approach to the management of the country’s financial system, Logos Press reported.
The amount of compensations granted to entrepreneurs for electricity since the beginning of the year amounted to 81.1 million lei. The time for granting compensations has been extended, Logos Press reported.
The Executive Committee of the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) at its August 7 meeting unanimously reduced the prime rate applied to the main short-term operations of the monetary policy to 6.25% per annum, keeping the mandatory reserve requirement for banks at the current level of 22% of the calculated base – for Moldovan lei and 31% – for convertible currency, – Logos Press reports.
About 3 million lei will be sent from the government’s guarantee fund to the regions affected by natural disasters, as decided by the Commission for Emergency Situations (CES), Logos Press reported.
The government has actualized the system of allowances by amending the law “On Unified Salary”, concerning novice civil servants and law enforcers, taking into account the specifics of their functions, – Logos Press reports.
At today’s meeting, the government approved a national program that provides for the payment of a monthly allowance of 3,000 lei to young specialists who are employed for the first time in sectors of strategic importance for the country’s economy, Logos Press reported.
In July, the domestic public debt continued its downward trend, amounting to 46.205 billion lei at the end of the month, compared to 48.5 billion lei at the end of June, Logos Press reported.
The income part of the health insurance funds in January-July 2025 amounted to more than 8.3 billion lei, while the expenditure part amounted to about 9.5 billion lei, of which about 9.4 billion lei were transferred to providers of medical and pharmaceutical services, Logos Press reported.
With heightened uncertainty, policymakers in emerging economies will be forced to make difficult trade-offs between high debt, slowing growth and new spending needs, the IMF said in a blog on economic policy adjustment.
Moldova’s new debts overlapped the old ones. And the external public debt increased by a third during the year. And the total debt of the state, thanks to this, has significantly gained weight. The weakening of the national currency, despite the NBM’s efforts to support the exchange rate, certainly made its contribution. But against the background of world financial events, it does not look like such a respectable factor for new borrowings burdening the economy. Although without them we are nowhere.
The volume of issued GS, offered to the population in July, was not fully redeemed, which indicates a decreased interest in investing in government securities with reduced yields, – reports Logos Press.
The independent analytical center “Expert-Grup” assessed as satisfactory the degree of implementation by Moldova of recommendations on all 12 chapters monitored in the cluster “Basic Elements” of the EU accession process, – reports Logos Press.
Although industrial production is concentrated in Chisinau mun. Chisinau (53%), the leader in exports of industrial products to foreign markets in 2024 are the enterprises of ATU Gagauzia, – reports Logos Press.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has improved its global growth forecast. Experts believe that Donald Trump’s trade war will do less damage to the global economy than initially feared, and the weakening of the dollar will soften the blow from duties for US trading partners, – reports Logos Press with reference to ProFinance.ru.
The number of non-bank lending institutions that are proven to violate the rights of financial services consumers is on the rise, Logos Press reports.
World Bank Group experts at the final stage of Moldova’s Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) held a series of meetings with the local expert community on loans to the economy, Logos Press reports.
At the end of June, the inflow of credit funds from abroad exceeded the outflow, and as a result, the balance of external public debt became positive, according to the Ministry of Finance,” Logos Press reported.
