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At the end of 2025, the “Belts” Free Economic Zone (FEZ) maintained its leading position among Moldova’s free economic zones, accounting for 55.4% of all attracted investment, nearly three-quarters of the workforce, and more than 75% of industrial output generated by FEZ residents.
The State Fund for Subsurface Information will be launched in August. The relevant regulations governing the acceptance and storage of materials in the fund have been published and will take effect on August 7, 2026.
Moldovan farmers have a chance to harvest the best wheat crop since the beginning of this decade. Officials at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry (MAIA) estimate the potential 2026 harvest from 339,000 hectares of wheat crops at 1.58 million metric tons (4.6 metric tons per hectare).
From January through June 2026, revenues administered by the Customs Service totaling 20,384.38 million lei were collected for the state budget. This represents an increase of 1,362.28 million lei (+7.2%) compared to the same period in 2025.
In the first half of 2026, exports by companies located on the left bank of the Dniester to European Union countries accounted for 76.9% of total foreign trade. This figure remained at the same level as in the corresponding period of 2025.
Romanians’ pension savings continue to grow at a record pace. In just one year, the assets of mandatory private pension funds (Pilonul II) increased by 37% and reached 227.5 billion RON (about $49.7 billion) by the end of May 2026.
Moldova exported just over 7,000 metric tons of apples from the 2025 harvest (totaling $6.4 million, at $0.9 per kilogram) in June 2026. This is a very significant volume of exports for a month that traditionally marks the end of the marketing season.
Electric vehicles are rapidly gaining popularity in Romania. While the overall new-car market grew by just 0.3% in the first half of 2026, sales of fully electric vehicles jumped by 76.6%. Their market share reached 8.5%.
An analysis of macroeconomic trends shows that closing the gap between the country’s obligations and its revenues is increasingly dependent on external financing and remittances.
Global pork production will continue to grow at a moderate pace in 2026. According to a forecast by analysts at AMI, total production will increase by 0.6% to reach 129.5 million metric tons. The main drivers of growth will be China, Brazil, and the United States, which are ramping up production and offsetting the decline in pig farming in European Union countries.
The global diamond market continued to show mixed trends in June: prices for smaller stones continued to rise, while prices for one-carat diamonds fell.
The economies of a group of small European countries—from the Mediterranean, the Western Balkans, and Eastern Europe—will grow more than twice as fast as the eurozone over the next five years.
In the first half of 2026, Italy maintained its leading position in the European tourism market: the number of tourist arrivals rose by 4.43% compared to the same period last year. Foreign tourists were the main driver of this growth.
The French retail real estate market is not developing uniformly. While Paris’s luxury shopping streets are benefiting from the recovery in tourism, the number of vacant retail spaces is rising in most cities.
In Moldova, a total of 1,601 thousand dwellings were counted, of which 995 thousand (or 62%) were occupied, while 38% were vacant. In Chisinau, the number of occupied dwellings is 301,942; the number of vacant dwellings is not specified, but given the stated proportion, it is not difficult to make an approximate estimate.
According to Eurostat, Greece led Europe in terms of rising unemployment in the first quarter of this year, emerging as the European labor market that was “impoverishing” the fastest.
In the first half of the year, the Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA) awarded grants to 383 companies, resulting in total investments of more than 268 million lei.
According to a forecast by Bloomberg Economics, the global economy is set to face a prolonged period of higher interest rates. According to the agency, by the end of 2026, this rate will stand at 5.10%, up from the 4.41% projected in January—that is, before the outbreak of hostilities in Iran.
In 60 of the world’s 197 countries, the proportion of the population living in rural areas exceeds that of the urban population. Moldova is among them; 56.4% of its residents live outside cities.
From June 29 to July 5, 2026, revenue from the Customs Service to the state budget totaled more than 858.8 million lei, which is 103% higher than the target for the reporting period.
