Светлана Руденко
Parliament has approved amendments to the state budget for 2025 in the first reading. The amended parameters envisage an increase in expenditures and budget deficit, as well as additional funds for salaries, social payments and compensations to citizens for energy resources, Logos Press reported.
Moldovan Finance Minister Adrian Gavrilice said that after the blocking of the last two IMF tranches, the country lost not grants, but loans for which there was an alternative. The government will “look” at the feasibility of launching a new program with the IMF, Logos Press reported.
The Moldovan government has reviewed the state budget for 2025 and confirmed that the IMF tranche was not transferred this year, but the country had sufficient sources of financing, Logos Press reported.
The draft of the new law on mediation has split the business and legal environment: the Ministry of Justice insists on mandatory pre-trial mediation to relieve the burden on courts, banks consider the measure ineffective, and utility providers warn of a possible increase in tariffs, Logos Press reports.
The European Commission promised Moldova even more money after the already promised 1.9 billion euros, if the country uses these funds efficiently, Logos Press reports.
The Academy of Sciences of Moldova (ASM) calls on the country’s leadership to make decisions based on scientific data, as the level of confidence of the population in the authorities depends on it,” Logos Press reports.
Moldovan trade unions are demanding a “breakthrough” in wages so that the country does not enter the European Union as the poorest. Sergiu Sainciuc, deputy chairman of the National Confederation of Trade Unions, said that the minimum wage of 5,500 lei “is not bad in principle, but it is too low,” while the required minimum should be 8,000 lei – half of the projected average wage, Logos Press reported.
The Moldovan government intends to withdraw from several more agreements within the Commonwealth of Independent States, including the agreement on visa-free travel of citizens of CIS member states across the territory of its members. This does not mean the immediate introduction of a visa regime with Russia,” the Moldovan Foreign Ministry said. Politicians and experts believe that only for now, Logos Press reports.
The new government’s program sets an ambitious goal of supporting the employment of at least 100,000 people over the next four years.
There are 54 parliamentary friendship groups with different countries in the XII Parliament. There was no place for Russia and Belarus in the middle of them. PAS promised to reconsider the decision to suspend these groups “only after Russia stops the war and starts respecting Moldova”. Opposition MPs believe that it is precisely the preservation of friendly relations between the deputies of our countries “that can help to end the war”.
Social inequality is increasing in Moldova. From 2019 to 2024, the poverty rate increased almost one and a half times, and the Gini coefficient, which reflects the degree of income stratification in society, increased by 6.8%,” Logos Press reports.
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, participated in a festive sitting of the Moldovan Parliament, where she announced the official opening of the European Parliament Office in Chisinau, Logos Press reports.
