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€15,000 from Iași brings heating and a toilet to the family-doctor office in Cioropcani

At an extraordinary session on 18 June, the Ungheni District Council approved a 500,000-lei project that will give the Family Doctors' Office in Cioropcani heating, a sanitary unit and a proper entrance — basic conditions it still lacked. Most of the money, €15,000 out of €24,875, comes from the Iași County Council under a cross-border cooperation agreement signed back in 2009; the district adds the rest. At the same session, councillors allocated money from the district budget and approved writing off worn-out assets at two schools — the exact allocation sum was not public at the time of the session.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
Two participants in a working meeting inside the Ungheni Tourist Information Centre, next to a stand with tourist leaflets, shelves of books and diplomas.
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Ungheni has a tourist centre worth 3 million lei, but accommodation capacity has dropped to a third of its 2008 level

The Tourist Information Centre in Ungheni — built with almost 3 million lei under the European «Mayors for Economic Growth» programme — hosted expert Alberto Cottica on Thursday in a meeting described as an «exchange of ideas», with no concrete purpose announced. Beyond the visit, the figures show the real stakes: the centre promotes tourism, but the district's accommodation capacity has fallen to a third of its 2008 level, while the programme that funded it has meanwhile entered its third phase.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· Explainer
A team of rescuers in red suits prepares a rescue boat on a riverbank during a water-rescue exercise.
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Six European countries rehearsed flood rescue on the Prut, in Ungheni district

A major European civil-protection exercise hosted by Moldova, “MD–EU MODEX 2026”, ended on 18 June. More than 250 rescuers from six countries — Poland, Germany, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Netherlands — spent three days working through realistic flood scenarios, one of the sites being the Prut river, in Ungheni district. The drill comes just a month after the Prut and local streams really did flood Cornova, Pîrlița and Vulpești.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News
Several people at a working table, with Civitas Foundation materials and a European project banner, during the study visit in Cluj-Napoca.
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What an Ungheni delegation is learning in Cluj about talking to citizens — right amid the merger of town halls

A delegation from Ungheni district, coordinated by the “Inovații Sociale” association, is on a study visit in Cluj-Napoca devoted to dialogue with citizens and cooperation between town halls and civil society. The visit is part of an EU-funded programme and lands exactly as the district is redrawing its map of town halls — where consulting people is the very point in dispute.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: a local council meeting room with chairs and a U-shaped table, empty; sober light, no people in the frame.
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Seven councillors demand a new vote on the Măcărești–Ungheni merger that failed in council

The project under which the commune of Măcărești would merge with the municipality of Ungheni did not gather the required votes in the Communal Council on 16 June — even though, a few days earlier, a citizens' assembly had approved it. At the request of a group of councillors, the mayor convened an extraordinary session for 22 June, with a single item on the agenda. It is the first visible blockage in the cluster of localities the municipality of Ungheni is gathering around itself.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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Illustration: a solemn official hall, with an open booklet of a constitution on a polished table and a pen beside it; warm light, no people in the frame.
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A woman took the oath of allegiance in Ungheni and became a citizen of Moldova

At the Ungheni District Council, in a solemn setting, with the national anthem, the district president confirmed the taking of the oath of allegiance by a new citizen of the Republic of Moldova — the exact legal moment at which someone becomes a citizen. Triunghi.md does not reveal her identity; but we use the occasion to explain a process that is rarely discussed: how, by which routes and for how many people Moldovan citizenship is acquired today — in a year when the numbers rose sharply.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
The porch of a traditional peasant house in Florițoaia Nouă: a carved wooden balustrade painted red, wooden pillars and door, a wall lime-washed in blue, windows with red frames and lace curtains.
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What is lost when a village empties: a living peasant house in Florițoaia Nouă

The Culture Section published a few photographs from a peasant house kept intact in Florițoaia Nouă, in the Ungheni district — a porch with carved wooden pillars, a rail hung with woven cloths, an icon in the corner, a bread oven. It looks like a pretty gallery. Read with an ethnographer's eye, it is more: a grammar of how Moldovans once lived, kept alive by a single person, at a time when villages are emptying and houses are left without owners.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: a craft table seen from above, with quilling spirals, origami figures, a pressed-flower composition and strips of colourful paper.
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At the Palace of Culture in Ungheni, young people discover rare crafts — origami, quilling and the art of pressed flowers

A creative workshop at the Palace of Culture gathered young people in Ungheni around four techniques with surprising stories: the Japanese folding of paper, the paper filigree once rolled on goose quills, the «painting» from pressed flowers once practised by samurai, and découpage. Beyond a pleasant afternoon, the workshop says something about what the town still offers its young people — in a district they are leaving.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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An inspector of the Environmental Protection Inspectorate, with "IPM" written on his back, stands in an inflatable boat by the Prut bank and checks a man whose face is blurred, during a raid against illegal fishing.
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In Ungheni, a Prut river raid shows what stays banned for fishing after the spawning ban

Environmental inspectors from Ungheni and the Border Police carried out fresh raids against illegal fishing on the Prut under the "TRITON 2026" operation and issued penalties — without saying how many. Yet on the Prut the spawning ban had ended on 7 June, so recreational fishing is allowed again. What remains banned are poaching gear, protected species and fishing without the border-zone access permit — with fines from 300 to 4,500 lei for individuals.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· Explainer