News about Social sphere
The Chisinau City Hall announced the first municipal Festival of Traditions. It will take place on May 24, 2026 from 12:00 on the pedestrian street “Eugeni Doga” in the center of the capital.
There are ten youth centers and a municipal business incubator in Chisinau municipality. For their functioning, the capital authorities allocate 60 million lei annually in the municipal budget. According to the Mayor’s Office, this amount has increased thirty times in the last few years.
Despite outbreaks of hantavirus and norovirus on cruise ships, the global market for sea travel continues to grow. The Cruise Lines International Association forecasts that 38.3 million people will cruise in 2026 – up 4% from last year’s record of 37.2 million passengers.
The National Confederation of Trade Unions of Moldova, sectoral trade unions of the public sector and the Congress of Local Authorities of Moldova (CALM) participated in consultations on the reform of the wage system in the public sector.
More than half of the current number of refugees from Ukraine will remain in Europe until the end of 2029 under the scenario of achieving a “fragile peace with concessions” in a war with Russia this year.
The spread of smartphones and mobile Internet has become one of the reasons for the sharp decline in birth rates in many countries of the world. This is the conclusion reached by American researchers.
Soccer club Chelsea (London) announced the appointment of Spaniard Xabi Alonso as head coach of the team. The contract is signed for four years, he will take up his duties from July, when the preparation of the team for the new season after the World Cup begins.
The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern.
Acting Prime Minister Peter Magyar said that Viktor Orbán would allegedly be left without the severance pay he was entitled to. The former prime minister denied these statements and said that the money he was entitled to under the law had already been allocated for charity – the money was given to the Good Samaritan orphanage in Transcarpathia, where the Hungarian national minority lives. He wrote about it on his Facebook page.
US coffee chain Starbucks announced on May 15 another round of layoffs among corporate staff and plans to close some regional support offices as part of its ongoing strategy to financially revitalize the business.
Donald Trump has spent much of his second term as president of the United States proposing to erect monuments to himself: a 76-foot triumphal arch between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery; a gilded, giant ballroom at the White House; a planned renovation of the Kennedy Center (renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center); and a broader effort to remake the Washington, D.C. landscape to suit his aesthetic preferences.
At the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna, which ended last night, Bulgaria won for the first time in its history. Singer Dara with the song Bangaranga scored 516 points and confidently won both the jury and the audience.
Council of Europe experts will check how Moldova implements the provisions of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. The inspection will take place during a monitoring visit from June 1 to 5, 2026.
Sfânta Treime Municipal Teaching Hospital plans to acquire a state-of-the-art angiography system designed for cardiovascular, vascular and neuroradiologic interventional procedures. The new equipment will allow for hybrid interventions, 3D rotational angiography and other minimally invasive procedures for adult patients.
There are 22 films competing for the Palme d’Or at the 79th Cannes Film Festival. However, this year the festival is held without the main usual element – big Hollywood studio blockbusters.
Travel is increasingly shifting from geography to emotion. The main question travelers are asking themselves in 2026 is not the destination, but the meaning of the trip. This is according to a new global report on travel trends by Hilton, based on a survey of more than 14,000 travelers from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and other countries.
Spanish national police, with the support of Italian law enforcers and Europol, detained in Naples 12 people suspected of a series of audacious robberies of tourists in Spain. The criminals targeted expensive watches.
Finland remains the undisputed favorite of the contest. According to the estimates of major bookmakers, its probability of victory is around 40-45%, and in some aggregators it reaches about 42%. In practice, this means that almost every second betting scenario now assigns the victory to Finland.
Prime Minister Alexandru Munteanu made a very personal speech at the Family Festival, admitting that his relatives have been away for a couple of days and he already misses them. However, the Prime Minister is “happy to spend this holiday in the circle of the ‘big family’ – with all the citizens of the country”.
The responsibility of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and the government as a whole is to be close to people not just at the level of programs and documents, but through concrete solutions that really make a difference in the lives of families in Moldova. And the Ministry “works on this every day”.
