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UPDATED. Economic recovery after numerous shocks will continue, although Moldova still faces high emigration, low competitiveness and limited opportunities. This was the conclusion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts following a mission and the publication of the relevant country report.
There is a simple rule in the global financial system: money runs away from risk. Today, this principle may affect one of the richest regions of the planet. Sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf countries control trillions of dollars. And if the war over Iran changes their investment strategy, the consequences could be felt by markets around the world.
On the evening of March 4, at a dinner in Brussels, EU ambassadors told the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, that they did not support the EC’s idea of Ukraine’s accelerated membership in the EU and urged the commission to present “more realistic” plans.
On the initiative of the National Crisis Management Center and in accordance with the appeal of the Ministry of Energy and the National Energy Regulatory Agency, the government imposed a 60-day high alert regime in the energy sector.
UPDATED. On the morning of February 28, Israel announced a “pre-emptive strike” against Iran. Later, a number of U.S. media outlets said that the U.S. armed forces were also launching dozens of strikes against Iran with U.S. attack aircraft based at bases across the Middle East and from aircraft carriers.
Attempts to regulate the real estate market through requirements for intermediaries, tightening of transaction procedures and control over financial flows have not destroyed intermediation. They have changed its nature. The number of “black brokers” has grown. The realtor profession degraded from the function of reducing the risk of the transaction to the function of technical assistance in circumventing regulatory barriers. The social value of professional mediation has fallen to a minimum – not because the market has become more transparent, but because it has become more adaptive to opacity.
The government’s Prima Casa program is often misinterpreted. It is presented as an instrument of housing affordability. In reality, it has become a price gas pedal.
When the market is healthy, it requires no explanation. It functions on its own: apartments are sold, banks lend, developers build, and buyers buy. The state is limited to the role of an observer.
In recent years, the debate on the regulation of cross-border marketplaces such as Temu, Aliexpress and similar platforms has intensified in Moldova in the context of protecting the domestic market and competing with local retail.
Discussions around the implementation of a pledge system for packaging (SDA) in Moldova go beyond the environmental agenda. Formally, it is about the collection of glass, plastic and metal packaging. However, in essence, the country is facing the creation of a new economic system where the interests of producers, retailers and recyclers intersect. The key asset is not packaging as a waste, but the bottle as a resource.
The U.S. dollar accounts for about 60 percent of the world’s merchandise exports, compared to about 25 percent for the euro, Europe’s single currency, much to the dismay of Brussels and member countries’ finance ministers.
The President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, says that countries in the region must be prepared for long-term threats to democratic processes, even in the face of positive developments at the regional level, according to Logos Press.
Moldova will set up the Government Customer Support Service – a single state call center for citizens and businesses, Logos Press reports.
In recent years, the construction sector and the real estate market of the Republic of Moldova have faced a deep crisis: housing sales have significantly decreased and the growth of prices per square meter continues to outpace the incomes of citizens, which makes affordable housing less and less accessible to young families and the population in general.
UPDATED. On the morning of Feb. 12, Belgian police searched several European Commission buildings as part of an investigation into the sale of real estate properties, Logos Press reported.
For small European states, such as Moldova and Albania, membership in the European Union is not only a development project, but also a guarantee of security, President Maia Sandu said during the official visit of Albanian President Bairam Begay to Chisinau, Logos Press reports.
As of January 1, 2026, the free enterprise zone “Tvardica” in the south of Moldova ceased to function. The anchor resident of the zone is Vinimpex Holding, which includes a factory producing still and sparkling wines Bulgari Winery, an enterprise producing strong alcoholic beverages, a cosmetics factory Natural Product, a tobacco factory BT-Tabac Holding… Also 1200 hectares of agricultural land, its own fleet of vehicles transporting products produced in Tvarditsa all over the world, several facilities in the sphere of HoReCa and consumer services. The owner of the holding is the well-known businessman Mykola Lucik, who invested about 55 million euros in the creation of his production facilities.
Every New Year we meet with enthusiasm and hope for changes for the better. This is the way human beings are: no matter how bad things are, no matter what problems overwhelm us, we traditionally consider the New Year as a starting point, from which we will start a completely different life – from a white sheet, without the problematic plume of the past.
The IMF mission led by Alina Iancu held a series of meetings in the framework of consultations with Moldova from December 4 to 17, 2025 and conducted a thorough diagnosis of the state of the economy of the country, of which it is a creditor. Based on the preliminary findings, the Fund’s experts will prepare a report, which, subject to approval by the IMF management, will be submitted for discussion and approval to the IMF Executive Board.
Today, December 12, the parliament will consider the draft law on the state budget for 2026. Over the past week, it was studied by stakeholders, and on Wednesday, the parliamentary commission for economy, budget and finance approved its opinion on the document.
