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In August, a good harvest in Ukraine’s agriculture helped accelerate the growth rate of the country’s gross domestic product, Logos Press reported.

In January-June 2025, the revenues of the national public budget increased by 16% compared to the first half of last year and exceeded 60.5 billion lei, Logos Press reported.

The execution of the state social insurance budget for the first 8 months of 2025 ended with an excess of revenues over expenditures of over 1.3 billion lei, thanks to transfers to cover the deficit of own revenues, Logos Press reported.

In the first 7 months of 2025, total state budget revenues amounted to MDL 43.7 billion, 16% higher than last year’s figure, Logos Press reported.

In just one month – in June 2025. – the state budget deficit increased by 2 billion lei. According to the Finance Ministry’s report, the state budget execution at the end of the first half of 2025 ended with a deficit of 7.6 billion lei, while at the end of May it amounted to 5.6 billion lei.

The European Commission is setting aside 300 billion euros to support farmers in the next long-term budget for 2028-2034, but it has been accused of cutting funding for the EU’s common agricultural policy, Logos press reports.

Execution of surplus budgets for Social Security and Medicare in 2024 could have been even better if not for shadow payments by businesses,” Logos Press reports.

Chisinau authorities have allocated more than 96 million lei c 2019 for sports activities, more than tripling the allocations in six years,” Logos Press reported.

In the 2024 national public budget and this year’s adjusted budget, the share of external and internal borrowing and grants reached 31%, 10% higher than the average for 2013-2020,” Logos Press reported.

The Chisinau Municipal Council once again failed to approve the 2025 budget. At the May 20 meeting, councilors agreed on only one agenda item, after which the MAN faction proposed a pause until next Tuesday.

During the first four months of the year, the State Tax Service collected 29.7 million lei in taxes from individuals for renting out real estate,” Logos Press reported.

In the first four months of 2025, the Customs Service sent more than 12.39 billion lei to the state budget, which is 29.8% of the annual plan,” Logos Press reported.