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The Government establishes the Authority for Investigation of Antidumping, Countervailing and Safeguard Measures. The new structure is designed to promptly respond to threats to national producers and ensure fair competition.

On April 21 this year, the Estonian Parliament approved a law accelerating the construction of national defense facilities.

UPDATED. The state of emergency in the energy sector will be lifted ahead of schedule if parliament votes in favor of the government’s proposal to end the state of emergency on April 25, rather than in May as previously planned.

In the period of April 14-20, 2026, the Customs Service’s revenues to the state budget amounted to more than 718.1 million lei, which is 102.6 per cent higher than the benchmark for the reporting period. Since the beginning of the current year, the Customs Service has collected about 11.8 billion lei to the state budget, which is 102.8% more than the benchmark.

Banks are ready to meet the needs of agricultural enterprises that find themselves in a difficult situation, but if there are prospects of recovery of the economic agent. This opinion was expressed by the chairman of the Association of Banks of Moldova, Dorel Noroc, specifying that only bank crediting is not enough for such companies.

The Republic of Moldova is hosting the 65th General Assembly of the Permanent Regional Working Group on Rural Development (SWG) of South Eastern Europe during April 21-22. The meeting will bring together officials from member countries and experts in the field from France, Hungary and Germany, which opens up opportunities for enhanced cooperation, including with non-member states.

The Council of the European Union decided to extend restrictive measures against persons “responsible for actions aimed at destabilizing, undermining or threatening the sovereignty and independence of the Republic of Moldova” until April 29, 2027.

The National Energy Regulatory Agency (NERA) has set new maximum fuel prices that will be in effect tomorrow, April 22.

In October 2025, the Moldovan government imposed a de facto ban on sugar imports from Serbia to the Moldovan market for a period of 200 days under the pretext of protecting the sector. This measure was presented as a supportive measure to give local sugar producers another hypothetical chance to “perk up”. Even at the cost of quite real sacrifices imposed on the entire food industry of Moldova. Let us assess what happened in the end.

Every fourth company in Poland plans to look for new employees abroad. This trend in the employment structure is most common among large (44%) and medium-sized (27%) companies. Only 5% of small employers intend to hire foreigners.

Along with the two state-owned publishing houses “Știința” and “Lumina”, which will be offered for sale, the state’s share (11.2%) in the printing house “Metrompas” will also be auctioned.

Azerbaijan’s relations with Belgium and the Netherlands have found themselves in a zone of high turbulence. Official Baku accused Brussels and Amsterdam of interfering in internal affairs after European parliamentarians adopted resolutions on the release of detained persons whom the Azerbaijani side considers war criminals, as well as on the continuation of the EU observation mission in Armenia.

On Monday, April 20, a refund portal went live for U.S. businesses affected by Trump’s tariffs. Applications for $127 billion have already been submitted. But the process could take months, and consumers will barely feel the benefits.

The authorities are taking strict control over the extraction of minerals and intend to introduce European standards of subsoil monitoring. The draft mandatory reporting developed by the Ministry of Environment will affect all subsoil users and for the first time will force them to take into account even hidden valuable components in dumps.

This is how the initiative of Parliament Speaker Igor Grosu to abandon the 5+2 format and create a new negotiating mechanism for the Transnistrian settlement was commented by the chairman of the Alliance of Moldovans party, Dumitru Roibu.

The municipal enterprise “Combinat of ritual services” operates ten cemeteries with the area of 160 hectares. At the same time, the problem of lack of free places in cemeteries remains acute.

The Justice Department is proposing to raise a number of rates for its services in order to “bring them in line with current economic conditions.”

The process of voluntary merger of mayoralties cannot be completed by December. The experience of already completed mergers has shown that the whole procedure takes more than a year. This is the opinion of Făleşti mayor Aliaksandr Severin.

The Entry/Exit System (EES), which began operating at EU borders on April 10, has caused hours-long queues at airports in six European countries.

Another state-owned enterprise will be offered for privatization by the Public Property Agency. It is the state-owned enterprise Izomer, specializing in the production of chemical products.
By the decision of the relevant selection commission, it was included in the list of assets to be privatized through open tenders.