Chisinau

"The European path represents the only viable way for the future of the Republic of Moldova," President Klaus Iohannis stated on Wednesday upon welcoming at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration of the Republic of Moldova Iurie Leanca, informs a press release of the Presidential Administration sent to AGERPRES.

AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: Prime minister Viorica Dancila on Tuesday reiterated at a meeting with the European Council's President Donald Tusk, Romania's strong support for the enhancement of the European project.

The volume of Moldova's foreign trade increased by almost 20 per cent in 2017, with both imports and exports increasing, according to the National Institute of Statistics.

Last year, the former Soviet republic exported goods worth 2.42 billion US dollars - 18.6 per cent more than in 2016.

There are more than 1,600 Romanian companies doing business in the Republic of Moldova and in the year of the Centennial we hope energy projects like the Iasi - Ungheni - Chisinau gas pipeline pick up speed, ambassador of the Republic of Moldova Mihai Gribincea told a conference organized on Thursday on the occasion of the listing of the Purcari Wineries on the regulated market of the Bucharest

Moldova's Audiovisual Coordinating Council, CCA has fined 11 radio and TV stations and seven cable network providers 5,000 lei (around 240 euros) each because they did not deliver an overview of their programming output as required by the country's new 'anti-propaganda' law.

Moldovans are moving over to Facebook and dumping its Rusian rival, according to a new survey.

The number of Facebook accounts in Moldova rose in 2017 by 19.3 per cent from 2016 to 910,000, according to a report by Gramatic brand agency.

Deputy Prime Minister Ana Birchall had a meeting on Tuesday with the Republic of Moldova Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration Tudor Ulianovschi, context in which she reiterated the importance which Romania grants to the Strategic Partnership with the Republic of Moldova and underlined that the development of the bilateral cooperation on all levels represents a priority assumed i

Romanian-Moldovan bilateral military cooperation, regional security strengthening as well as the cooperation relations between the Republic of Moldova with the North-Atlantic Alliance and the European Union were among the topics tackled during the meeting in Chisinau, between National Defence Minister Mihai Fifor and his counterpart of the Republic of Moldova, Eugen Sturza.

The caravan of Romania - Republic of Moldova - Cernauti Romanian cinematographic works organized under the banner 'Romanian Film Centennial - 100 Years, 100 Films, 100 Cities' was launched on Saturday in Iasi.

Moscow has dismissed the recent proposal of the Speaker of the Moldova parliament, Andrian Candu, for Russia to pay compensation for illegally stationing its army in Moldova's breakaway Transnistria region as "provocative".

Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Tuesday that such statements would not help resolve the Transnistrian conflict.