News about Regulation
The local authorities of Valencia (Spain) intend to impose on vacation homes and apartments a limit of 2% of the total housing stock of the urban neighborhood, reports Logos Press.
Pavel Durov, the messenger’s founder, said Telegram will continue to adapt to the restrictions and complicate ways to block the service.
SINGAPORE – Recent energy crises, particularly the war with Iran, have shown how vulnerable many countries are to conflict, disruption and coercion. Not surprisingly, governments around the world are rushing to rethink their diversification and energy transition strategies.
The White House has requested $152 to return the former prison island of Alcatraz to the current prison service.
At the moment, the state agency Moldsilva coordinates the activities of 19 independent forestry enterprises. More than half of these enterprises are currently unprofitable. The basis of their economic activity is the harvesting and sale of timber, mainly firewood. The reorganization of the forestry enterprises into one state enterprise with a centralized budget and five territorial departments without legal personality will provide savings of about 70 million lei annually by optimizing the staff and reducing administrative costs.
The level of budget deficit, fixed in the fiscal policy, should not exceed 3% of gross domestic product (GDP).
Participants of the state program “First House” will enjoy the conditions established earlier. They will not be affected by the recent decision to stop collecting applications for compensation.
The National Crisis Management Center says the energy sector remains volatile and lifting the state of emergency requires caution.
The National Energy Regulatory Agency (NERA) has set new maximum fuel prices that will be in effect from April 4 to 6.
The planting of gardens larger than 0.5 ha will be approved by a 7-member panel. The opinion of the panel will be advisory in nature and attached to the project documentation.
As of April 1, 2026, the transition period for working with the SD CEMT digital system, a platform for processing and controlling international freight permits, has ended.
From April 1, 2026, all large natural gas consumers are obliged to enter the free market and buy gas, including through exchange mechanisms.
The practice of applying simplified requirements to the activities of small-scale food producers and agritourism guesthouses was discussed during the workshop “Food safety and local competitiveness: between regulation and innovation”.
The amount of money hidden from taxation by the world’s richest people has reached alarming proportions. According to Oxfam International, 0.1% of the world’s wealthiest people keep about $2.84 trillion offshore – more than the combined wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people).
The European Union is increasing pressure on the fashion industry: from July 19, 2026, a ban on the destruction of unsold clothes, shoes and accessories will come into force. The new rules oblige large companies not to dispose of leftover collections through incineration or landfill, but to look for more sustainable solutions – recycling, reuse or resale. The initiative is a response to the growing environmental burden posed by mass production of clothing.
The activities of the Prosecutor’s Office for Combating Organized Crime and Special Cases (PCCOCS) resulted in the seizure of more than LE 550,000,000 worth of money and property in 2025.
After the “dirty story” with the Dniester, only some freshwater fish species can be considered relatively safe to buy on the Moldovan food market: carp, crucian carp and fathead carp, which in the vast majority of cases are raised in “standing water” – lakes and ponds.
The rates of fees in Chisinau municipality were indexed by 4.7% this year. They will be applied from January 1, 2026.
Yesterday, Polish financial and technical company ZEN.com won the tender “to withdraw the bankrupt PINbank from the Ukrainian market”. The company will buy 100 percent of the institution’s shares from the state Deposit Guarantee Fund. Apparently, a new foreign player will enter the Ukrainian market of financial services.
The necessity of attracting foreign investments into the Moldovan economy is not disputed by anyone. However, the country’s authorities do not have a clear understanding of how to actually do it, what levers and mechanisms to use. One of the effective, and at the same time quite accessible and efficient mechanisms was proposed by a well-known entrepreneur Mircea Baciu. What exactly we are talking about – in his interview with curentul.md.
