Total expenditure under the state social insurance budget for the first nine months of 2026 amounted to 38,948.0 million lei, or 73.8 per cent of the planned annual total. Compared with the same period last year, actual expenditure increased by 1,992.9 million lei, or 5.4 per cent.
The European Union summit was unable to agree on a budget for 2028–2034 totalling €1.76 trillion, which included increased military spending. A proposal to cut the budget by €140 billion failed to gain the necessary support due to sharp disagreements between donor and recipient countries.
The household appliance voucher scheme (EcoVoucher) is entering a new phase. With funding from the state budget, 8,120 households will receive support to purchase new energy-efficient appliances between 13 October and 1 November 2026.
The State Enterprise ‘Railway and Bus Stations’ is one of the 98 state-owned entities proposed for liquidation as part of the public portfolio review process, approved under Government Decision No. 819/2023.
In Moldova, citizens with severe disabilities will be able to receive two social benefits simultaneously – a survivor’s pension and a childhood disability pension.
France is coming under increasing pressure due to its high budget deficit, rising public debt and political divisions over spending cuts.
“We are investing in defence because we want peace,” said the Speaker of Parliament, Igor Grosu, at the Moldova Security Forum. According to him, since 2022, the defence budget has more than doubled and has reached 2 billion lei this year.
As part of the prestigious European Horizon Europe programme, the large-scale POLICY ENLARGE project (Grant Agreement No. 101289627) has been officially launched. The total budget for the open call is €300,000. These funds are intended to support up to 45 joint projects involving researchers, businesses and innovators from EU candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine.
At today’s meeting, the government approved a draft resolution on the adoption of the Rules for the Operation of the ‘Treasury’ electronic information resource, which forms part of the Integrated Public Finance Information System.
Economic analyst Dumitru Barbalat maintains that political parties should not be funded from the state budget, as all existing parties are illegal.
