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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.
The application process for the competition for financial assistance to offset excise taxes on diesel fuel purchased between March 1 and May 31, 2026 has been completed. The competition ran from May 11 through June 2, 2026, and the Agricultural Intervention and Payment Agency (AIPA) received 2,244 applications.
About 9% of workers in the European Union are in a situation of forced non-standard employment, when people work on temporary contracts, part-time or short-term assignments due to the lack of opportunity to find a permanent job. This is stated in a study by Eurofound – the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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 government approved the Strategic Program of Agricultural Policy for the period 2026-2030 (PSPA). The document defines the priority areas of this sector of the economy through the procedure of granting subsidies to farmers. The program envisages a gradual increase in the state financing of this sector from 2.3 billion lei in 2026 to 5.3 billion lei in 2030, with a planned total budget of 18.9 billion lei.
The sanctions applicable to owners of exchange offices for circumventing currency transaction rules will be moved to the Contravention Code.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is set to impose new duties against major U.S. trading partners, including the European Union and Canada, over concerns about forced labor.
The State Procurement Agency is planning to reorganize its activities and increase the number of staff to cope with the new responsibilities assigned to the agency. The relevant draft government decree envisages an increase in the maximum number of staff from 32 to 39 units.
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.
Subsidies totaling 178.49 million lei were paid to Moldovan farmers in May 2026, the Agency for Interventions and Payments in Agriculture (AIPA) said.
From May 25 to June 2, 2026, representatives of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) visited Moldova to evaluate the new loan agreement “Modernization of Agricultural Machinery and Equipment” (MAME 2).
Finland has confiscated 3.7m euros of Russian funds at the request of Ukrainian state-run company Naftohaz.
Parliament initiates public hearings to find solutions to combat phone and online fraud.
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.
The new Minister of Agriculture Uldis Augulis believes that the reduced VAT rate for essential products should be made permanent.
The General Director of the National Social Security Fund (CNSS), Elena Cibyrne, will make a working visit to Spain between June 12 and 17, 2026. The purpose of the visit is to hold meetings with representatives of the Moldovan diaspora to inform citizens about their social rights, including in the context of the application of the Social Security Agreement.
Excessive noise in commercial and catering facilities will be authorized by the authorities. The National Agency for Public Health will have the right to detect and investigate such offenses.
