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A wide field of ripe golden wheat in warm sunset light, with rolling hills on the horizon and dramatic clouds heralding change.
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Moldovan wheat sells below cost and the Government wants to stop imports. Ungheni district is caught on both sides

On August 26, the Government backed the reintroduction of import licensing for cereals and oilseeds as a temporary measure until October 31. It is not a government decision — it is an opinion on a draft law that Parliament still needs to vote on. Prime Minister Tofan openly acknowledges the measure helps grain growers but hurts millers and livestock farmers. Ungheni district is caught on both sides: 17,000 hectares of cereals with above-average yields, but also 22 milling companies that need cheap grain.

Ion Calmis·27 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Straight four-lane concrete road crossing the Moldovan plain with no cars, wheat fields and gentle hills on the horizon, in warm summer evening light
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88 million lei for the A8 motorway study: the tender is open, the route follows the 'betonka'

The National Road Administration has put out to tender the feasibility study for Moldova's first motorway — 125 kilometres from the Ungheni interchange to the village of Budești, near Chișinău. Estimated value: 87,880,953 lei, excluding VAT. The chosen route follows the M5 road, not R1 through Pârlița and Cornești. The study must be delivered by 30 September 2027.

Ion Calmis·20 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A freshly dug trench along the edge of a village street, with blue water pipes ready to be laid, a water tower and houses in the distance, in morning light.
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50 localities in Ungheni district have water, only 7 have sewerage too — what the 598-million programme brings

The government has approved a national water and sanitation programme for 2026–2030, with an estimated cost of around 598 million lei and European-style targets: safe water for at least 95% of the population and sewerage for 65%. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics shows exactly where Ungheni district stands: 816 kilometres of water network and only 119 of sewerage, and out of 50 localities with a water supply, only 7 also have a sewerage network.

Ion Calmis·13 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
An open wallet on a modest kitchen table, with a few Moldovan lei banknotes and coins, next to a bill and a cup of coffee; warm morning light
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What the 2027 fiscal policy would bring an Ungheni employee: 1,236 lei a year, but higher VAT on agriculture

On 6 August the government unveiled the draft fiscal policy for 2027 and sent it out for consultation. The most visible measure for employees: the tax-free portion of income rises from 29,700 to 40,000 lei a year — about 1,236 lei extra stay each year in the pocket of every worker earning above the threshold. In Ungheni district, with 16,349 employees, that adds up to as much as 20 million lei a year. But the same policy raises VAT on agriculture, accommodation and tourism from 8 to 12%, and Ungheni is an agricultural district. Nothing has been adopted yet: the draft is only now entering debate.

Ion Calmis·8 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A cadastral plan spread out on a worn wooden table, its corners held down by two stones. Beside it, a stack of files tied with string, a wooden ruler, a pen, a heap of coins and a few banknotes. Warm morning light through a window with a thin curtain.
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276 million lei for the six mergers in Ungheni district. The municipal group takes 157.5

On 4 August the Government said how much it gives per head for mayoralty mergers: 3,000 lei. That figure is only the first term of the real formula. Applied to Ungheni district, with the National Bureau of Statistics table by locality, the three incentives yield 276.7 million lei for the six amalgamation groups — 157.5 million for the group around the municipality alone. It also explains the figure of 278 million announced on 31 July by the head of the Ungheni Territorial Office. The press release does not mention that second term, and the largest part of the money is conditional on a law that has not yet been published.

Ion Calmis·5 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Horizontal bar chart showing the distribution of the 39,796 net salaries in the 125 public entities analysed by the Government: 55.6% below 10,000 lei, 30.2% between 10,000 and 20,000, 8.9% between 20,000 and 30,000, 4.3% between 30,000 and 50,000 and 1.1% above 50,000 lei, alongside the net median of 43,981 lei at ANRE and the average gross monthly earnings in Ungheni district, 11,321 lei in 2024.
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43,981 lei net — the median at ANRE, the agency that approves Ungheni's water tariff

On 31 July the Government published a preliminary analysis of pay in 125 public entities. 85.8% of the nearly 40,000 employees have net salaries below 20,000 lei. At the top of the ranking by medians, in the table published by the Government, stands ANRE — the authority that approves water, electricity and gas tariffs — and the Government says it cannot change its pay policy by administrative order.

Ion Calmis·2 August 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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An empty school corridor, with a blank nameplate on the door of an administrative office and archive boxes stacked against the wall.
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46 schools in Ungheni district move to the state, with 72.5% of the district budget — public documents do not say whether the district gains or loses

The Government has approved the draft «Restart in Education» reform, which still has to be voted by Parliament: from 1 January 2027, primary schools, gymnasiums, lyceums and special education move from district councils to Territorial Agencies for Education, subordinated to the ministry. District education departments are abolished. In Ungheni district this means 46 institutions with 11,061 pupils, and the segment that leaves amounts to 335.5 million lei, that is 72.5% of the district budget. The Ministry of Finance calculated that 14 district councils gain from the reform and 18 lose — but it did not publish the list, and Ungheni is not among the examples named.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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An open cardboard folder with blank sheets, a partly folded road map, a ruler, a pencil and a cup of coffee on a wooden desk, in morning light.
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The new Government's programme names Ungheni five times, all of them on transport. The free zone never appears

Parliament voted on Tuesday the programme of the Cabinet led by Vasile Tofan, and on Wednesday the Government took the oath. In the document's 147 pages, Ungheni district appears five times — the motorway, the railway to Iași, the bridge over the Prut, the link to Chișinău and the Berești logistics hub — all of them on the transport axis — three of them with a 2029 horizon — and with a cautious verb: “first works advanced”, not completed. The free economic zone, which holds almost one in six salaried jobs in the district, is not mentioned even once.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A blank official form and a pen on a kitchen table covered with a flowered oilcloth, next to a cup of tea and a pair of knitted booties.
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What the bill approved by the Government would mean for some 74 mothers in Ungheni district: maternity benefit from the father's income, only from 2028

The Government approved on Wednesday a bill that closes an old inequality: today an uninsured woman receives maternity benefit calculated from her husband's income, but not from the income of the child's father, if the two are not married. The bill changes that — provided the father acknowledges paternity and has a contribution period. Three things are not visible from the press release: the provisions enter into force on 1 January 2028, the concrete procedure is not yet written, and the Ministry of Finance issued a negative opinion twice, saying there is no source for the roughly 170 million lei.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE