In 1Q2014, Moldova achieved certain progress in realization of the EU-RM Action Plan, say experts from the Association for Participatory Democracy (ADEPT) and the independent Expert-Grup analytical center, who presented their new quarterly Euromonitor issue at a news conference at Infotag.

On May 28, Moldovan farm producers will hold in the center of Chisinau a massive action of protest against the authorities’ avoiding meeting with them to discuss the sector’s vital problems.

The Association of Meat Importers of Moldova is outraged by the 20% tax, applied to them at meat import, although the law provides that this year it should be of 8%, stated the Association Leader Anatolii Tretiac at the Tuesday press-conference in the Infotag Agency.

On May 10-15, the Embassy of Germany to Moldova will hold a “Moldo-German Week” to show how the Germans of Bessarabia, the present-day mainland Republic of Moldova (without the Transnistrian region), used to live here in 1814-1940.

The opposition Communist Party and its leader, ex-President of Moldova MP Vladimir Voronin appear to be the popular-most players on the Moldovan political arena, as per the research carried out on March 1-30 by the Public Opinion Foundation among 4,555 residents of various-type Moldovan populated areas. The pollsters are saying that error should not exceed ±1.5%.

Moldovan farmers demand the Government to solve the problem of fuels and gas products prices increase, otherwise threatening with protest actions.

The 4th International Festival of Theatre and Film Schools ClassFest, held on April 11-16, will unite 180 participants from 13 countries including Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, against 130 participants from 8 countries in 2013.

The local patriotic organizations of Femida [Themis] and “We are Moldovans, We Speak Moldovan” are drawing the Moldovan authorities’ attention to the unionists [adherents to the idea of Unirea – Moldova’s unification with Romania] who “overtly violate the laws of the Republic of Moldova”.

The just emerged citizens’ movement “The Young of Moldova” has called upon compatriots to join the organization’s march called “It’s Not Crimea Here” to be organized in Chisinau next Sunday.

About 70 patriotic civil society organizations of Moldova are protesting against the possible demolition of the Liberation Monument, standing in the capital city’s main street before the Moldovan Academy of Sciences for several decades now.

The Moldovan population’s trust in governing parties and the opposition has remained approximately at the level of November 2013, according to the Vox Populi opinion poll findings in March 2014 that was undertaken to clarify the influence of events in Ukraine on the socio-economic situation in Moldova. The findings were presented by Association of Sociologists and Demographers of Moldova in Infotag on Monday.

The supporters of the Moldovan statehood have stood up with accusations against the Constitutional Court, claiming that with its judgment of last December 5 concerning the official language’s name the Court “has created legal prerequisites for liquidation of the Republic of Moldova as an independent state, and has legitimized conditions for abolishing Moldova’s independence as such”.

The Republic of Moldova simply has to wage a multi-vector external policy. Such is the opinion of the Pro-Moldova Association of Historians and Political Scientists, which was expressed at a news conference at Infotag today in the context of the idea put forward by the Association – to organize an all-republican referendum on the general line of the country’s external policy and development.

Parliamentary Advocate Tamara Plamadeala urges authorities to take more severe measures against teachers abusing children.

The case of Banca de Economii (BEM) [Moldovan Savings Bank] is a glaring example of the malfunction of the national economy, think experts of the Independent Analytical Center Expert-Grup, who presented the research ‘Epopee of Banca de Economii, or the Collapse of a Giant’ at a news conference at Infotag today.