Small and medium-sized businesses
Three young Romanian entrepreneurs realized that there was a great need for an affordable and easy-to-use app for small businesses that need to declare waste, so in mid-2023 they developed and launched the Waste Registry app, which now helps more than 1,100 businesses track their waste.
Between March 2025 and February 2026 – 358 micro and small farms have availed finance under the Fund for Agricultural Credit (FCA) program. Of these, 40 farms did so in February this year.
Alexandru Bădăreu, Executive Director of Forța Fermierilor Association, announced his resignation at the General Assembly of the organization. He will be replaced by Alexandru Slusari, who held this position during the previous mandate of Forța Fermierilor’s governing bodies.
Fagura, a crowdfunding platform based in the Republic of Moldova, has attracted investors from the Bravva Angels business angel community in a €1.5 million convertible funding round raised over the past year, according to a Bravva Angels press release.
The government planned to increase by 21% the amount of subsidies granted to employers for creating jobs for persons with disabilities. Currently, the amount of state support can vary from 1000 lei to 6000 lei per month per employee. After the increase, the subsidies will range from 1210 lei to 7260 lei per month.
The euro area labor market showed modest improvement in January 2026. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to a record low of 6.1%, down from 6.2% in December 2025 and 6.3% a year earlier.
A new factory of the company “Brodecchi” S.R.L., one of the major producers of bakery products in Moldova, will be built on the site of the old one, following the model of its modernized production in the city of Orhei. It is planned to equip the production facility with modern equipment, as well as to expand the premises and improve working conditions.
There is an acute shortage of judges in Moldovan courts, caused by mass resignations. This seriously hampers the handling of insolvency cases.
Fifteen Moldovan small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) carried out an analysis of their companies’ activities in terms of the real and necessary level of digitalization.
The Ministry of Finance intends to change the criteria by which enterprises are categorized as “micro”, “small”, “medium” and “large”.
Artificial intelligence is used at the enterprises of Bellegprom Concern, which includes more than 60 light industry enterprises in Belarus. First of all, it is used to develop product design.
Employers from all regions of the country – from Gagauzia to Falesti, including companies created by people from Ukraine, were included in the top of the best employers in 2025, according to the National Employment Agency.
