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Farmers in Moldova are once again struggling with a seasonal shortage of labor. This is a problem for all agricultural producers, but it is particularly acute for fruit growers.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the country’s antitrust regulator, has approved eBay’s acquisition of the secondhand clothing platform Depop, removing a key regulatory hurdle to the completion of the deal.
The U.S. State Department is facing the most serious crisis in the 102-year history of the American diplomatic service.
The payment company Stripe, in partnership with the investment fund Advent International, has made an offer to acquire PayPal Holdings for more than $53 billion.
The notion that Moldova will soon no longer need natural gas is dangerous and could be harmful. Vadim Cheban, chairman of the board of “Moldovagaz,” expressed this view on social media.
Opportunities for the development and financing of decarbonization projects in the Republic of Moldova were discussed during an official meeting between Carolina Novac, State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy (ME), the head of the Department of Renewable Energy and Green Mobility, Nicolae Magdil, and representatives of SDG Impact Japan, a company specializing in the creation and development of new enterprises aimed at addressing sustainable development challenges.
A tokenized deposit is a digital representation of a bank deposit on a distributed ledger.
Moldova’s domestic public debt continued to grow steadily in June 2026, reaching 57.34 billion lei by the end of the month. In the first half of this year, it increased by more than 5.34 billion lei due to the active issuance of government securities.
The Swiss group Richemont, which owns the Cartier jewelry house, began the new fiscal year with results that exceeded analysts’ forecasts. The main driver of growth was steady demand for Cartier jewelry in North and South America, as well as in the Asia-Pacific region.
Big things start small. A 1.23-kilometer “white version” of a rural road has been built in the village of Telitsa (Anenii Noi District) with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) program in Moldova.
Warren Buffett has decided not to direct future donations to the Bill Gates Foundation and intends to contribute approximately $6 billion to his family’s four charitable foundations over the next eight years.
IBM’s weak quarterly results were one of the first signs that the stock market is beginning to reassess companies that are betting on artificial intelligence. Investors are looking not for strategies and grandiose statements, but for revenue growth, new orders, and convincing financial forecasts.
Progress on the “Moldova – Sustainable Water Supply (Irrigation) Project” were discussed during an official meeting between Liudmila Catlabuga, Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development (MAIA), and Elena Gordeeva, Director of the Infrastructure Department for Europe at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Liang Wenfeng, founder of the Chinese company DeepSeek, has become the world’s richest entrepreneur among the founders of companies specializing in the development of artificial intelligence models. Following a new round of funding, DeepSeek’s valuation rose to $50 billion, and its founder’s net worth increased to $36 billion, according to Bloomberg, citing the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The Romanian company Ecovillas announced the start of development on LAGO Homes, a residential complex of approximately 100 homes on the shores of Lake Gidigich, near Chisinau.
As part of a new privatization program, the Public Property Agency (PPA) is putting five historically significant state-owned assets up for sale.
The Transnistrian authorities have not given up hope of successfully selling the Bender River Port, which is owned by the (internationally unrecognized) state. The facility will once again be put up for privatization. The owner intends to raise at least 1.2 million rubles (local currency, presumably, approximately $74,500).
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the real estate market crisis and its causes. But these discussions are fragmented and not always logically connected. The problem, however, is complex and interconnected. That is precisely why “picking out” individual facts or statistical data and commenting on them without considering the broader chain of factors can lead us down the wrong path in our search for the causes of the crisis.
The Ministry of Finance announced the launch of a new round of subscriptions for government securities from July 13 to July 27, 2026.
On Wednesday, July 15, 2026, staff members of the Agency for Agricultural Interventions and Payments (AIPA), under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Industry (MAIA), will hold another round of consultative seminars with agricultural producers and representatives of local administrations on funding prospects under the Strategic Agricultural Policy Program (PSPA).
