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Lithuania is ready to support Moldova in the areas of countering disinformation, cyber security and military training, including professional training of military personnel and training of non-commissioned officers. This was discussed at a meeting of the two countries’ defense ministers. Earlier, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that Vilnius would provide Moldova with 6m euros in military aid.

Radu Savopol, the founder of the Romanian chain of 5 to go coffee shops operating in Moldova, launches a new business – a chain of establishments called Atelier Matcha.

The flow of foreign capital into Greek real estate has fallen sharply. In 2025, foreign investment fell by 22% and amounted to 2.05 billion euros against 2.75 billion a year earlier. Such data is given by the Bank of Greece.

After an unsuccessful attempt to realize these assets through a tender in 2021, the Public Property Agency intends to offer them through an auction. Similar to the Hotel Zarya, the two state-owned publishing houses Știința and Lumina, as well as the state’s share in the printing house Metrompas, will be sold.

The largest contribution to GDP growth in 2025 was made by information technology and communications. A 12.5% increase in gross value added contributed 0.9 percentage points to GDP growth.

Wheat could post its strongest weekly gain in nearly two months. Drought and dry weather in key regions, including the U.S. Great Plains, Australia, and parts of the Black Sea region and Europe, have weighed on the outlook for wheat supplies.

The price of the first cryptocurrency rose to $78,000 for the first time since early February. The reason for the positive dynamics was the statement of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who announced the opening of the Strait of Hormuz.

In 2025, more than 63 million lei were allocated from the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund for mental health services provided at home, 7.5 million more than a year earlier. The funding allowed providing about 336 thousand consultations, of which 17% were provided to children under 18 years old.

Within the Antalya Diplomatic Forum, President Maia Sandu held a number of bilateral meetings, including with the President of Turkey, the forum’s host country. Messages about the meetings were published by Maia Sandu in a brief format on social networks.

According to the data of the Ministry of Finance, during the first five days of subscription (April 13-17, 2026), about 59 million lei were invested on the eVMS.md platform during the April round. More than fifty individuals carried out 635 transactions, reaching a record level of interest in investment instruments since the beginning of the year.

The head of Kering announced plans to bring to the market smart glasses of luxury class, which will be created in partnership with Google. The project envisages the release of the device under the Gucci brand as early as 2027, which could be one of the first examples of the integration of artificial intelligence in the segment of high fashion.

Under the Farm Credit Program (FCA), the Agricultural Working Capital (AWC) line of credit is allocated, which provides soft loans to farmers to cover current production costs.

The Competition Council plans to purchase equipment for the data processing and analysis laboratory, worth about 1.6 million lei, excluding VAT. These are high-performance workstations needed to analyze large amounts of economic information and to conduct competition investigations.

In the first quarter of 2026, the Organization for the Development of Entrepreneurship (ODA), in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization (MDED), continued the implementation of grant programs to support entrepreneurs. During this period, the total amount allocated by the Entrepreneurship Development Organization to 135 grantee companies amounted to 23.74 million lei.

The fourth season of Mercedes-Benz Bucharest Fashion Week was held at the National Museum of Arts of Romania. Designers from Moldova also participated in it: it was not only a way to reach the regional level, but also a chance to make a louder statement.

In early April 2026, the international agency Moody’s Ratings upgraded Moldova’s long-term sovereign credit rating from B3 to B2 with a “stable” outlook. This decision, which became the highest rating in the last 25 years, caused a lot of enthusiastic comments from the country’s authorities.

The requirements for public-private partnership projects will be changed. Their launch will be possible only after the approval of a preliminary comprehensive study – the so-called project justification (studiu de fundamentare), in addition to the traditional feasibility study (studiu de fezabilitate).

The program for the implementation of Moldova’s National Defense Strategy for the next five years is estimated at about 10.6 billion lei. The government has elaborated a draft of the respective program. The document is expected to be discussed at one of the next cabinet meetings.

American billionaire Ilon Musk continues to surprise: On April 17, company X (formerly Twitter) officially launches a new instant messaging service XChat. Ilon Musk positions the novelty as the most secure mass messenger, which will become the foundation for the future financial platform X Money.

Economic and military competition has intensified under Trump, but many experts consider him only a “symptom” of the global restructuring of the world system. The Brookings Institution predicts a continuing trend toward national and regional self-sufficiency through the painful scrapping of the old. Its arguments are cited by Mike Dolan, a Reuters columnist.