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On Tuesday evening, the Ministry of Finance made public the draft Budget Law for 2026. And on Thursday, at an extraordinary meeting, the government approved it, although initially it was decided to give the social partners an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the document and express their opinion on it. Especially since it was developed with a serious violation of the budget calendar.

The OECD’s December 2025 report raised GDP growth forecasts for many economies, reflecting solid economic growth and positive trends in a number of countries amid current uncertainty, Logos Press reported.

The National Bank has revised the inflation forecast for the medium term upward, except for the end of 2025. – early 2026, Logos Press reported

This year’s fall has been fruitful for forecasts of the country’s economic development. Updates followed from both international partners – IMF, WB – and local experts. All of them show cautious optimism about overcoming stagnation. However, they are unanimous that sufficient recovery growth should not be expected.

In 2025, analysts forecast real economic growth in Romania of only 0.8% of GDP, with the “alternative scenario” being a technical entry into recession with a budget deficit of 8.6% to GDP, Logos Press reported.

Moldovan economists presented an even more pessimistic forecast of annual development results than their foreign colleagues, who were not generous to the country this year either, – Logos Press reports.

A sample statistical survey in the fourth quarter of 2025 predicts relative stability in the economic activity of businesses, especially in manufacturing and construction, Logos Press reported.

In 1991-1992, the economy of the Moldavian SSR was abolished and the economy of the Republic of Moldova was never created, because there was no project according to which the system of national economy of RM would be built.

Global demand for vegetable oils will increase to 229.28 million tons, up nearly 3% from last year’s level, in the 2025-2026 marketing year, according to an estimate by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Logos Press reports.

In August, Ukraine’s total public and state-guaranteed debt increased by $6.58 billion and totaled $192.71 billion, Logos Press reported.

A potential harvest of only 276 thousand tons was announced by the Moldovan delegation at Prognosfruit-2025 (Angers, France). This is an annual international conference under the auspices of the World Apple and Pear Producers Association (WAPA) dedicated to forecasts of these fruits. A modest forecast is putting it mildly. However, to declare more, and in fact to give out in turnover less is to mislead.

With heightened uncertainty, policymakers in emerging economies will be forced to make difficult trade-offs between high debt, slowing growth and new spending needs, the IMF said in a blog on economic policy adjustment.