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Briefness first and foremost – February 19, 2019 IPN digest


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As many as 600 young people will be trained to generate business ideas. Another at least 540 young people will be helped to develop startups. The activities form part of the national program “Start for young people: a sustainable business at home” that was launched by the Organization for the Development of the Sector of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises. The Organization’s acting director general Petru Gurgurov said young people aged between 18 and 35 who started or aim to start a business, mainly in rural areas, can apply to take part in the program.

During the 2014-2018 electoral cycle, the relations with EU reached a critical point. The experts who analyzed the level of fulfilment of the promised made by the PDM in the parliamentary elections of 2014 ascertained that the relations with the EU during the electoral cycle of 2014-2018 reached a critical, unprecedented point that was emphasized in the progress report and in two resolutions of the European Parliament of July and November 2018. In the period, the financial support agreed with the EU for the justice sector reform in Moldova was stopped, while the macro-financial assistance was suspended.

The analysis authors established that the relations with Russia during the electoral cycle of 2014-2018 worsened considerably and the efforts to remove the barriers placed on the path of the Moldovan products to the Russian market were substituted by the Russian authorities by political conditions: the PSRM’s victory in the future parliamentary elections.

If the state institutions in the Republic of Moldova were free, at least three political parties would be excluded from the current electoral race for gross violations of the financing rules. “I think the PDM, PSRM and PPȘ should be excluded from the race as there are all the reasons for such a move. Regrettably, this will not happen as functional and independent state institutions stopped existing in the country long ago,” stated public policy expert Ștefan Gligor, adding he does not see a real confrontation between contenders and considers the current elections are a simulation.

The diaspora is a class of citizens and human capital without which the Republic of Moldova cannot develop. The diaspora includes the most active people of society who could not endure poverty, misery and injustice and went abroad to look for a better life. This is the opinion of election runners on behalf of the Democratic Party of Moldova, the National Liberal Party, the electoral bloc ACUM Platform DA and PAS and an independent contender who run for MP in constituency No. 50 Westward the Republic of Moldova. The statements were made in the public debate “Elections 2019: Please elect me MP on behalf of the Western Diaspora because...”, which was the 106th installment of the series “Developing political culture through public debates” staged by IPN Agency.

As from February 19, the citizens of Moldova can travel to Turkey with identity cards as well. The Moldovan citizens who will travel to third countries through Turkey should inform themselves about the travel regime applying to Moldovan citizens who go to a country as a final destination and should have the documents needed for border control with them.

Expert of WatchDog community Sergiu Tofialt said there are suspicions that an intermediary bought the buses that were displayed in the central square of Chisinau and the difference in the purchase and selling prices was appropriated. In this regard, Sergiu Tofialt provided a number of arguments, the first being that the Republic of Moldova is mentioned nowhere on the website of ISUZU company whose inscription can be seen on the buses exhibited in Chisinau.

Five men and two women aged between 25 and 70 died from complications caused by flu during February 11-17. The victims are from Chisinau, Ungheni, Nisporeni, Cimișlia, Anenii Noi and Taraclia. The number of deaths associated with flu since last October rose to 27. The population is encouraged to respect all the prophylaxis and hygiene rules and to immediately see a doctor on the first symptoms, without resorting to self-medication.

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