News about Legislation
A special parliamentary investigative commission will investigate the causes of the increase in telephone and digital fraud. Its tasks include assessing the damage caused and identifying legislative gaps that allow criminals to operate with impunity on the territory of the Republic of Moldova.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered the Republic of Moldova to pay 560,000 euros to the company Seksimp Group SRL in a case on the enforcement of a court decision that led to the forced auctioning of the company’s assets.
The Spanish authorities in 2025 granted citizenship to almost 300 thousand foreigners – the highest figure in the history of observations, according to data from the National Statistical Institute of the country (INE).
The Moldovan state budget envisages funds related to vacation days not used by public sector employees. In particular, this year the amount of over 192.4 million lei is planned for these payments.
The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched an official investigation against Swiss lawyer Alexander Montavon for alleged misappropriation of Hermes shares, which, according to the company’s heir Nicolas Puesch, are now worth more than €10 billion. Investigators are looking into whether these assets could have been controlled by structures linked to billionaire Bernard Arnault’s LVMH group. The new development is yet another twist in the long-running confrontation between the two major players in the global luxury industry.
The French consumer protection regulator has again imposed two fines totaling more than 22 million euros on Shein over violations related to product traceability, environmental information, return times and delivery conditions.
Parliament ratified amendments to the Agreement allowing to attract additional financial resources from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the modernization of road infrastructure. As a result, the amount of the loan for the implementation of “Project V for Road Rehabilitation in Moldova” will be doubled to 300 million euros. MPs from the ruling party and from the opposition voted in favor of the draft in two readings at once.
A Guarantee Fund will be established in Moldova. It is established to transpose the EU Directive, which sets minimum standards for the protection of workers’ rights and the prevention of losses in the event of employer insolvency.
Over the past ten years, the National Bank of Moldova’s sanctions policy has gone through several phases: from targeted fines of tens and hundreds of thousands of lei in 2017–2020 to individual sanctions amounting to tens of millions of lei in 2022, and subsequently to a more systematic tightening of supervision in 2025–2026.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Moldova (AmCham Moldova) proposed to reform the process of preparation and approval of normative acts, stating the need to increase the transparency, predictability and quality of regulation. The relevant proposals were sent to the Parliament and the State Chancellery.
UPDATED. The cab services market in Chisinau, whose annual turnover is estimated at 2 billion lei, has once again been in the center of attention of lawmakers. According to deputy Alexandru Trubca, official reports show only 1.2 billion lei, which means that about 800 million lei remain out of sight of the tax authorities.
Within the framework of the country’s reintegration policy, 15 government programs were implemented in 2011-2025, which allowed financing 616 projects worth over 218 million lei. On Wednesday, June 3, the government approved a new one-year program with a budget of 25 million lei and a list of new projects.
The new Hungarian government has signaled it may lift its long-standing veto of Ukraine’s European Union bid, paving the way for the first phase of formal EU membership talks with Kiev and Chisinau.
The sanctions applicable to owners of exchange offices for circumventing currency transaction rules will be moved to the Contravention Code.
Moldova will increase by 150 million euros the loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the implementation of the V Road Rehabilitation Project, bringing the total amount of financing to 300 million euros. The decision is due to the increase in prices for construction materials and labor.
Romanian investment fund Fondul Proprietatea, which owns a 20% stake in the Constanta Sea Ports Administration, continues its court battle against the acquisition of the Giurgiulesti port in Moldova.
The State Tax Service of Ukraine (STS) has revealed a large-scale scheme to transfer money abroad. We are talking about more than 2.3 thousand companies that made foreign economic transactions for more than 198bn hryvnias ($4.47bn or 77bn Moldovan lei) and then virtually disappeared.
Finland has confiscated 3.7m euros of Russian funds at the request of Ukrainian state-run company Naftohaz.
The UK government is considering introducing a national blacklist of airline passengers that could deny violent offenders the right to fly on any airline.
The European Parliament has agreed on a new migration law that will allow the establishment of centers for deporting migrants outside the EU. The document will also expand the authorities’ powers to search for migrants and increase the terms of their detention. Critics have already called the document a “xenophobic turn” in the bloc’s migration policy.
