Infrastructure
Here, international students will be able to get support, understand the university system and get into the academic environment faster. Rector Otilia Dandara said that the university is focusing on attracting students from all over the world. For this purpose, programs in English and opportunities to study Romanian language and culture are being expanded.
The degree of wear and tear of Moldova’s transmission grids ranges from 70% to 90%, and many of them have already exceeded their service life. At the same time, the networks and substations are loaded at 100-110%, which increases technical losses. The Vulcanesti-Isaccea interconnection is also already overloaded due to technological flows.
New foreign aid projects in the sphere of social protection, education, agriculture will receive tax and customs privileges. The decision is related to updating the list of technical and investment support programs operating on the basis of international agreements.
In March this year, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) authorized for payment subsidy requests amounting to more than 166 million lei. In the previous month, the agency authorized more than LE 158 million in
of farm subsidies.
March ended with a catastrophically low water level in the Dniester reservoir for this period of the year – only 115.28 meters. This was reported by Ilya Trombitsky, director of the Eco-TIRAS organization, on his Facebook page.
On the Dniester, work is underway to install water intake equipment for the Crocmaz-Căplani-Tudora centralized irrigation system. This system will provide irrigation for about 2.5 thousand hectares of agricultural land near the mentioned settlements.
The prime minister said that as early as next week, the government may go to parliament with ready documents and propose the lifting of the state of emergency regime. The Cabinet of Ministers will not extend it “for a single day longer than necessary”.
The Armed Forces Operational Command has denied that Poland is providing its airspace for “offensive actions against Russia”. This is a response to emerging reports claiming that Poland allegedly allowed Ukraine to attack Russian ports through its territory. Earlier, the authorities of the Baltic states also denied such theses.
Moldovan Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu has said that relations with Romania have a special, “family” character. He said this after a meeting with the head of the Romanian government, Ilie Bolojan, which took place in Bucharest.
The authorities intend to unload psychiatric hospitals by merging psychiatry and narcology services into a single system and creating beds in district hospitals.
Tesla CEO Ilon Musk has announced a massive investment in Japan to dramatically expand its service infrastructure and network of charging stations.
During five years (period from 2026-2030), the WB project for the protection of the Dniester ecosystem will be implemented in Moldova. It is aimed at reforestation, as well as wetland and soil conservation.
The increase in the price of agricultural inputs due to the war in the Middle East will certainly lead to a reduction in the sowing of many spring crops in the Northern Hemisphere. This process will also affect the Black Sea region, including Moldova. More than other spring crops, it is likely that the area sown with grain maize will shrink by at least 5-10%.
The Republic of Moldova is modernizing its national meteorological, hydrological and agrometeorological monitoring system to better protect the population and agriculture from extreme weather events. Thanks to the joint efforts of Japan, Sweden and Austria, coordinated by UNDP Moldova, 42 modern stations will provide accurate real-time data to residents and farmers in 17 districts of the country, as well as in ATU Gagauzia.
The national reforestation program provides for the expansion of forest areas by 145 thousand hectares, with the share of acacia not exceeding 15-20% of the total area, in order to preserve the ecological balance and diversity of forests.
Under the Zero Waste Project, which has been implemented since 2017 under the patronage of Turkish First Lady Emine Erdogan, the country has recycled 90 million tons of waste, bringing 365 billion Turkish Liras back into the economy.
The Agency of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre announces the launch of two public procurement procedures for the development of real estate information systems – a price register and a database.
Each state agency will revise its planned procurement requirements for 2026 due to the crisis situation by at least 10% of their originally approved cost in order to save money.
It is planned to allocate 12.31 million lei for the organization of summer rest and recuperation of children and teenagers in 2026. This is stated in the public procurement announcement published by the National Social Insurance Fund (CNIF). The funds will be used to buy about 3,380 vouchers to children’s camps for the summer season.
UPDATED. The procedure for establishing owners’ associations will be changed. A draft law amending the Condominium Law is being discussed in Parliament. It introduces new rules for the formation of associations of homeowners in apartment buildings and specifies the conditions for the participation of tenants in such structures.
