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Expert-Grup launches monthly press conference series on the state of the economy: growth, inflation and energy challenges at the centre of the first edition

Tuesday, 29 September 20268 views
Expert-Grup launches monthly press conference series on the state of the economy: growth, inflation and energy challenges at the centre of the first edition

Automatically translated summary. The full article is available in Romanian.

Independent Think Tank “Expert-Grup” has launched a monthly press conference series, “The Economic Reality Analysed by Expert-Grup”, held on the last Tuesday of each month at 10:00. The first edition reviewed the organisation's activity, the Moldova Economic Thermometer and experts' comments on the month's main economic events.

Adrian Lupușor said the economy remains in a growth phase, but a weak one, bordering on stagnation. Annual inflation rose to 6.96% in August, and on 17 September the National Bank of Moldova raised the base rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 9.0%. Lupușor expects growth of only 1–2% in 2026. Marina Soloviova noted that GDP growth in the second quarter was below 1%, while investment in machinery and equipment rose by 13% in real terms.

Stas Madan called the 2027 fiscal policy draft probably the most debated fiscal document in Moldova's history, warning that some planned revenues are temporary or unrealistic. Vitalie Rapcea criticised the new office for strategic infrastructure projects, which merges only three of 12 implementation units, and recommended mapping the constraints blocking projects first. The next conference is planned for the last week of October 2026.

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