The Republic of Moldova is preparing to invest in research and innovation infrastructure by developing technology centres that will link universities with the business community. Among the projects are Agrotech Park, being developed at the Technical University of Moldova, and a university-based component dedicated to bioengineering within the future Moldova HiTech Park in Stăuceni.
Local producers of milk and dairy products have drawn up a package of proposals aimed at restructuring the market for these products in Moldova. The proposals were presented at a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture held this week. Despite the seriousness of the proposals, MAIA’s leadership received them favourably. This was probably because they were requests – not demands.
Moldova is exploring options for financial support for energy storage systems and heat pumps for the residential sector. Issues relating to the financing of these technologies and the adaptation of European expertise were discussed on 27–29 October as part of a TAIEX expert mission organised by the National Centre for Sustainable Energy (CNED).
Access to finance, product certification and finding European trading partners were the key themes of the sixth Moldova Trade Forum 2026. The forum took place on 29 October and brought together more than 250 representatives from government bodies, financial institutions and the business sector from both sides of the Dniester.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) are expanding their partnership to support measures to tackle climate change in cities. The GCF has approved the allocation of a second tranche of funding amounting to €87 million for the EBRD’s ‘Green Cities’ programme.
Energy storage systems will be incentivised through tax and customs concessions. Business entities connected to the grid via renewable energy generation facilities with storage systems, as well as those importing certain types of batteries, are granted a deferral on the payment of customs debts.
The negative trend in the non-residential property sector proved to be more pronounced, with the decline being almost three times as severe as that in the number of residential building permits issued. The figures were provided by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which noted a decline in both the residential and non-residential sectors during the first nine months.
Energy Minister Dorin Junghietu held bilateral meetings with his foreign counterparts on the development of the Vertical Gas Corridor.
The government has officially launched the large-scale investment programme ‘Building Moldova’ (Construim Moldova). Yesterday, 29 October, during a special event, Prime Minister Vasile Tofan, together with key members of the Cabinet, presented a detailed plan for the implementation of 19 strategic projects with a total value of 1.9 billion euros, which will be funded under the European Union’s Economic Growth Plan for Moldova for 2025–2027.
North Korean hackers may be behind the largest cryptocurrency theft in history, amounting to around $6.3 billion. The analytics firm TRM Labs reports that the attack on the Binance exchange was likely carried out by the TraderTraitor group, which is linked to the North Korean hacking network Lazarus. Experts consider this theory to be highly plausible, although there has been no official confirmation as yet. Neither Binance nor the law enforcement agencies have named the alleged organisers of the attack.
