budget

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.

The Cabinet of Ministers has reallocated the available financial resources in this year’s budget to pay pensions, salaries and allowances, as well as to replenish the fund intended for compensations, Logos Press reported.

Members of the Congress of Local Authorities (CALM) are proposing the creation of a special fund for Contributions. These are required for local authorities to contribute to projects. As a rule, their contribution is about 10% of the total cost. Since there are many problems in the regions and the amount of state investment is limited, mayoralties try to maximize the use of funding from international and cross-border projects. And they face the fact that they do not have enough funds for contributions.

The state budget execution at the end of September ended with a deficit of about 7 billion lei against 7.5 billion lei at the end of August, thanks to the outpacing growth of the revenue side, Logos Press reported.

Moldova will soon carry out a process of budget adjustment in the context of the heating compensation program, Logos Press reports.

The eighth attempt to approve the capital’s budget for 2025 failed. Chisinau will continue to work on last year’s budget. It is not yet clear if and when another attempt will be made. But if the muncipal council fails to do so by the end of this year, the story will become a precedent that happens for the first time in the capital.

On Wednesday, October 15, the issue of approving the budget – 2025 was on the agenda of the municipal council meeting, but then withdrawn, according to Logos Press.

Postponing the adoption of the budget jeopardizes the payment of energy compensations. The authorities promise that the system will be in place this year and beyond. As it has been applied before. However, the absence of a draft budget for next year casts doubt not only on the timing of the aid, but, according to experts, on the financing system in 2026 as a whole.

Postponing the budget jeopardizes energy reimbursements, Logos Press reports.

The state budget deficit for the first eight months of 2025 amounted to 7.5 million lei against 7.3 million lei at the end of July, Logos Press reported.

Annual allocations for state budget expenditures in the first half of the year were met at 47.6 percent, including 23.5 percent for externally funded projects, Logos Press reported.

In the revenue part of the national public budget, the most significant growth of revenues in percentage terms in the first half of the year was recorded in fines and sanctions – the growth amounted to 49.1%. In monetary terms, the controlling and supervising state bodies collected 101.7 million lei more from fines than in the first six months of 2024.