We Should Be Able To Qualify For Euro 2012 - Holland Coach Bert Van Marwijk (Goal.com)

Holland were paired with Sweden, Hungary, Finland, Moldova and San Marino during Sunday's draw for the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign and head coach Bert van Marwijk isn't too worried about Oranje's opponents.

Moldova ex-president hits at Romania's plans to host U.S. missiles (Russian Information Agency Novosti)

Romania's initiative to host missiles as part of a U.S. missile defense shield in Europe could turn neighboring Moldova into a front-line area, Moldovan ex-president Vladimir Voronin said on Sunday.

Moldova-Ukraine border security to be consolidated (Moldova.org)

The Republic of Moldova's Border Service will be invested with certain police plenary powers in order to further strengthen state border security, Minister of the Interior MG Victor Catan stated at a news conference today convened on the occasion of the official opening of the European Union Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM) Chisinau Liaison Office. Gen. Catan explained ...

PM Filat: USA is a honest and reliable friend of Moldova (Moldova.org)

Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat's exclusive interview with the news agency MOLDPRES MOLDPRES: After your appointment as prime minister, you have visited many Western capitals, with Western politicians assuring Moldova of support in all the sectors: political economic, social, etc. But one could get the impression that you failed to command your emotions only in a single case, in Washington ...

Russia's new immigration policy to attract people from Moldova, Ukraine, Central Asia (Moldova.org)

Russia seeks to liberalize immigration policy, move could attract more Moldovans to work there Igor Shuvalov, Russia's first deputy Prime Minister, said during a press conference yesterday that his country would like to liberalize immigration policy in 2010. Mr. Shuvalov said that Russia seeks to attract more people from Moldova, Ukraine, and Central Asia. A considerable number of Moldovans work ...

Russia, Moldova to draft debt restructuring plan in H1 (RosBusinessConsulting)

RBC, 05.02.2010, Chisinau 15:07:39. Russia and Moldova have agreed to prepare and present to their respective governments a plan on the restructuring of Moldova's debt for consumed Russian natural gas in the first half of 2010, co-chairmen of the Russian-Moldovan intergovernmental commission Veleriu Lazar and Andrei Fursenko told journalists today.

Gagauz minority wants Russian to be official language in Moldova (Moldova.org)

The Gagauz authorities will propose the Chisinau authorities to change the Constitution. Hence, the Russian language would become a state language in the Republic of Moldova, DECA-press Agency informs. The Comrat Executive Power will develop a draft law, that will be submitted for adoption to the People’s Assembly of Gagauzia – the autonomy’s legislative body. After that, the above-mentioned ...

Moldova fosters economic ties with Romania, Russia simultaneously (Moldova.org)

The Moldova-Russia intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation will meet on Thursday in Chisinau. The commission has not met for a year, mostly because of the political situation in Moldova. Discussions today will focus on increasing cooperation in fields like agriculture, transportation, and tourism. In a related news story, a number of businesspeople from Chisinau and ...

Moldova to work out program for reorganization of energy sector (Moldova.org)

The Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova will work out a program for the reorganization of the energy sector, in order to raise its efficiency and to improve its competitiveness and to solve the problem of arrears, Vice-Premier, Minister of Economy Valeriu Lazar said at a sitting of the governmental commission on the improvement of the situation in the energy sector. He remarked that ...

IMF to allocate $150 million to Moldova in 2010 (Moldova.org)

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will allocate $150 million to Moldova in 2010 in the frame of the Memorandum, designed for 2010-2012. On Tuesday at a news conference IMF Mission Head for Moldova Nikolay Gheorghiev, who is currently paying a working visit to Chisinau, said that the Moldovan Government can use these financial resources for covering the budget deficit and for replenishing the ...