Within several hours after the adoption of the decision on raising fuel tariffs by the National Energy Regulatory Agency, it was cancelled by the Chisinau Appeals Court at the demand of the Ministry of Economy and Infrastructure and the Agency for Consumer Rights.

The pensions of those people, who worked or are still continuing to work after their reaching the retirement age, will be recalculated to be increased, as per the bill approved by the Moldovan Government last Friday.

The Government approved a whole range of amendments to the current legislation that concern the raising of bank shareholders' transparency. It is about the changes and additions to such normative documents as laws on financial institutions, joint stock companies, capital market, banking activity and others.

At its plenary meeting on Thursday, the Moldovan parliamentary majority adopted amendments to the Law on the 2018 State Budget. In particular, the revenue side has been increased by 303.5 million lei - to thus bring the figure up to 36.9 billion lei; the expenditure side - by 652.1 million lei up to 41.9 billion lei; and the deficit has thus grown by 348.6 million lei - up to 5 billion lei.

At the Tuesday's Government sitting, Prime Minister Pavel Filip thanked the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) for canceling at his demand the regulator's own earlier decision on fuel price raising.

National Bank of Moldova President Sergiu Cioclea congratulated country's bankers on the occasion of the Day of Banker, marked in Moldova on Monday.

Electric energy rates for consumers in central and southern Moldova, serviced by Gas Natural Fenosa (GNF) distribution enterprises, may go down by approximately 13% starting from July 1, as per the draft Resolutions prepared by the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE) in response to the supplier's request made last March and just published on the ANRE website.

Moldovan Customs Service Director Vitalie Vrabie met with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Moldova Masanobu Yoshii on Monday. They discussed the provisions of an intergovernmental agreement on mutual administrative assistance in what concerns the exchange of customs information.

Speaker of the Parliament Andrian Candu met with economic agents of the Singerei, Falesti and Telenesti raions on Monday. He said that foreign investments in the Moldova's banking system will allow providing more profitable credits to agrarians.

Ambassador Peter Michalko, Head of the European Union Delegation to Moldova welcomed the quality improvement of Moldovan banks shareholder structure, achieved as a result of reforming the financial sector and bank invigoration.

Moldova will receive US$3.5 million from the United States for contributing to efficient and democratic governance. The Government approved on Wednesday the signing of an Amendment to a corresponding agreement between the two countries' Governments.

The deposit guarantee fund in the Moldovan banking system grew 20.5% in 2017. This was said in the report on the Fund activity in 2017, presented at the Tuesday's sitting of the parliamentary Standing Committee on Economy, Budget and Finance.

The monetary revenues to the Moldovan banking system accounted for 24.79 billion lei (US$1,502 million) in January-March, which is 1.3% more than over the equivalent period of 2017.

The first and the second tranches of EU macro-financial assistance to Moldova will arrive to the country this year, said Prime Minister Pavel Filip at the Friday's Parliament sitting, while presenting 2017 report on Government results.

Prime Minister Pavel Filip summarized the results of his last-week visit to Brussels in an interview to Moldpres news agency.

The official reserve of the National Bank of Moldova accounted for US$2,869 million as of the end of April. Over a month, the reserve fell by US$5.89 million.

The National Bank of Moldova has lowered the forecast of average annual level of inflation for 2018 to 3.3% from 3.7% and raised the 2019 forecast to 4.9% from 4.7%.

The tax revenues to the national budget exceeded 11,625 million lei (US$704.6 million) as of the beginning of May, which is 1,743 million more than over the equivalent period of 2017.

The national Moldovan leu currency exchange trend has changed due to considerable strengthening of the American dollar to all the foreign currencies. Currency dealers say about the transactions with cashless currencies at a rate of MDL16.60 : US$1 and MDL20 : US$1 and even lower.

50 best students from 10 higher educational institutions of Moldova were awarded with Encouraging Stipends. The awarding ceremony was organized by the Information Educational Center under the auspices of the Council of University Presidents with financial support of the Moldova Agroindbank (MAIB) and Orange Moldova.