On Sunday, August 17, the parliament will meet in a special session to swear in the newly appointed members of the Constitutional Court, Logos Press reported.
Money from parents remains the main source of livelihood for a third of young people in Moldova, Logos Press reports.
A memorandum on the creation of a HealthTech Hub at the State University of Medicine and Pharmacy, which will become a national platform for innovations in healthcare, has been signed in Moldova, Logos Press reports.
The level of indexation of pensions in Moldova in 2025 exceeded the inflation rate. According to the authorities, this ensured a real increase in the income of pensioners. The opposition believes that they were only restored their income to the level of the previous year, taking into account price increases, and that the rights of pensioners were violated due to insufficient compensation for past years. Experts say that the pension system requires deep reform for sustainable and fair pension provision. Otherwise, both the state and pensioners themselves will continue to “run as hard as they can just to stay where they are”.
The Ministry of Education has approved the Framework Plan for Preschool Education for the 2025-2026 school year, which for the first time introduces digital education for senior and preparatory groups (children aged 5-7),” Logos Press reports.
More than 7,000 children, including 169 from Ukraine, received payments.
A plant under construction to sustainably manage animal by-products not intended for human consumption will operate without harming the environment or human health, Logos Press reported.
The dynamics of passing the Bachelor’s degree exams in Moldova remains high. Since 2014, when 65.31% of candidates passed the exam, the results of graduates show a steady improvement every year. This year, the overall pass rate of the national Bachelor’s degree examination amounted to 79.17%.
The authorities canceled the open bidding procedure for organizing events for Independence Day on August 27, Logos Press reported.
Losses in the distribution of periodicals by subscription for 2025 amounted to 16.6 million lei,” Logos Press reported.
The period during which unclaimed social payments can be received has been reduced from 12 to 3 months. After that they are suspended, but they can be resumed upon request. Such a decision was made by the government on Wednesday.
The XIth Parliament held 172 plenary sessions with a total duration of almost 1,100 hours. In the last convocation, they were organized twice less – 81 sessions, taking into account the fact that the Parliament was dissolved ahead of schedule two years after its election.
The Central Election Commission (CEC) calls on all organizations involved in the monitoring of the parliamentary elections to be responsible in the preparation of reports and public communication of observations.
The Central Electoral Commission has registered the electoral bloc “Patriotic Bloc of Socialists, Heart and Future of Moldova” to participate in the parliamentary elections scheduled for September 28, 2025. The relevant decision was unanimously adopted by the CEC members who participated in the meeting on Sunday, August 3, Logos Press reported.
Last week, the Constitutional Court declared unconstitutional the amendments to the Amnesty Law on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Moldova’s independence. These amendments were introduced by the outgoing parliament during 2022 and allowed life convicts to apply for the commutation of a life sentence to a sentence of up to 30 years of imprisonment and then for amnesty.
The number of voters dropped by 2,157 over the year, from 3,300,600 on Aug. 1 last year to 3,298,443 this year, according to Logos Press.
Companies will be able to encourage their employees to allocate their working time to support social projects for the benefit of society. This is envisaged by the draft law on volunteering, which officially regulates a new form of participation of company employees in socially useful projects – corporate volunteering.
The new duties on goods exported by Moldova to the United States should enter into force on August 1, 2025, but Moldova requested a transitional period. This would allow the Moldovan authorities to continue the dialog with the US side in order to reach a bilateral agreement, including on the possible reduction of the duties. This was stated by Cristina Ceban, State Secretary of the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization.
The spring-summer session of the Parliament has ended today. Since the beginning of this year, 24 plenary sittings with a total duration of almost 160 hours were held. The MPs adopted 260 normative acts, including 30 aimed at harmonizing the Moldovan legislation with the European one.
State-owned Detașamentul de Pază Paramilitară (DPP) will be taken over by another state-owned enterprise, Scutul Energetic,” Logos Press reported.
