The scope and procedures of public procurement have changed significantly in recent years, making their accounting require updated monitoring technologies,” Logos Press reported.
In the first quarter of 2025, the national public budget was implemented with a deficit of 313 million lei,” Logos Press reported.
An external audit by the Court of Auditors has revealed multiple irregularities regarding the reliability of data submitted in the information systems managed by the National Health Insurance Company (CNAM),” Logos Press reports.
As of May 31, 2025, the domestic public debt increased by 4,817.7 million lei compared to the situation at the beginning of the year and amounted to 48,778.9 million lei, exceeding the target for 2025,” Logos Press reported.
The National Bank of Moldova has analysed potential challenges to the stability of the country’s financial system and concluded that there are no global risks to the financial sector, but there are geopolitical risks, according to Logos Press.
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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.
