In 2025, the Audit Chamber intends to expand the digitalization of audit, strengthen institutional independence, attract and motivate human resources. The main message of the departmental Report on the Activities of the Supreme Audit Institution in 2024 is directed to the future.
Real wages increased by 1.7% in the first quarter of 2025. Labor costs were lower than at the end of last year due to insufficient wage growth,” Logos Press reported.
In April, the total public debt continued its growth, amounting to 123 billion lei (+16% in annual terms). In relation to GDP, it amounted to 35%, compared to 32.8% a year earlier,” Logos Press reported.
Today, May 29, the National Bureau of Statistics for the first time presented official indicators of multidimensional poverty in Moldova. According to the calculations, a quarter of the country’s population (25.6%) can consider themselves in a state of “multidimensional poverty”. Even more people – one third of the country’s population (33.5%) – will be below the absolute poverty line in 2024,” Logos Press reports.
More than a quarter of pensioners work officially and are social security contributors, securing their retirement benefits,” Logos Press reported.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in Moldova, and it is more common in women than in men,” Logos Press reported.
According to the Open Data Inventory (ODIN) 2024/25, Moldova has moved up to the third place in Eastern Europe in terms of accessibility and openness of official statistical data, – reports Logos Press.
The Competition Council is working on legislative amendments to transpose into Moldovan law the norms of Directive (EU) 2019/633 on unfair practices between merchants and suppliers, – Logos Press reports.
By the decision of the NBM executive committee, CB Moldova-Agroindbank, Moldindconbank, OTP Bank and Victoriabank were again named as banks of systemic importance in Moldova,” Logos Press reports.
In the first quarter of 2025, insurance companies’ revenues from all lines of business declined and pre-tax profits fell significantly,” Logos Press reported.
In the first quarter of 2025, a decrease in both the volume of cargo transported (-1.6%) and the distance of cargo transportation (-12.4%) is registered,” Logos Press reported.
The largest insurer in Central and Eastern Europe VIG AG WVC (Vienna Insurance Group AG Wiener Versicherung Gruppe) will expand its presence in Moldova by acquiring control (480 thousand shares, 80% of the authorized capital) in the insurance company Moldasig.
Restrictive monetary policy measures since the beginning of 2025 and the situation on the monetary and foreign exchange market led to an increase in interest rates on new loans and deposits in lei in the first quarter of 2025.
On Thursday, May 22, the legislature ratified the agreement signed on May 9, 2025 between our country and the European Union,” Logos Press reported.
The National Bank registers an increase in interest rates on newly issued bank loans, – reports Logos press.
Anca Dragu, Governor of the National Bank of Moldova, delivered a message today at the official opening of the Leaders’ Summit in Bucharest,” Logos Press reported.
The outflow of money from the banking system outpaces cash inflows into it. From January to April 2025, the volume of cash withdrawals exceeded cash receipts by more than one billion lei,” Logos Press reported citing NBM data.
The stake in the insurance company Moldasig will be sold to a potential investor under government guarantees, which will ensure that the new owner will have a clean transaction,” Logos Press reports.
A team of schoolchildren from Moldova took the third place at the ISEF International Science and Engineering Competition in the United States,” Logos Press reports.
The Ministry of Finance announced the opening of the next round of subscription for Government Securities (GS), which will run from May 19 to May 28, 2025 – Logos Press reported.
