Moldova

71 hospital wards have been repaired in recent years with funds from the state budget, while a further 13 wards, as well as food blocks and laundries, have been repaired with the development fund of the National Health Insurance Company

360.215 residents of the Transnistrian region have Moldovan citizenship, as declared by the Public Service Agency; in the last 6 years, almost 30.000 residents of the Transnistrian region have obtained Moldovan citizenship

Over 11.000 applications for admission to higher education were submitted on the website www.eadmitere.gov.md in the first days after the launch of the competition

53 teachers of Romanian language and other school subjects from Gagauzia, Dubasari, Taraclia, Cahul, Balti will travel to Romania for courses in Romanian language, literature and civilisation, the presidential press service reported

The renovation of public buildings and district heating systems, with a focus on school facilities, will be supported by the Scaling Up Energy Efficiency in Europe and Central Asia programme initiated by the World Bank with $54,5 million

The National Bank is working with the Service for Preventing and Combating Money Laundering and other national authorities to stop illegal financial flows from Russia and the unauthorised use of Russian card payment systems in Moldova

Moldova advanced in the world rankings of gender equality, coming 13th out of 146 countries, moving up six places from the year 2023

Forestry companies received 42 pieces of forestry equipment worth 60 million lei (over €3.000.000) to prepare the land and plant the forests, as a step in the implementation of the reforestation programme

A new law authorising the Intelligence and Security Service to determine the case for withdrawing Moldovan citizenship from certain categories of people risks making them stateless, according to legal experts

The Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Section of the Balti Clinical Hospital was inaugurated after repairs, modernised and equipped to European standards

Beneficiaries of temporary protection working in Moldova will receive health insurance, thanks to a project approved by MPs; the persons concerned will have the same rights and obligations in the compulsory health insurance system as Moldovan citizens

The country will implement postal voting and the countries will be selected according to criteria set out in document regulating the principles of exercising the right to vote by post, the specific electoral procedures and the powers of electoral bodies

The Constitutional Court ruled that the referendum on EU membership is constitutional and can therefore be held on October 20; it will contain the question "Do you support Moldova's accession to the European Union?"