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The interior of a small, empty courtroom, with wooden benches, a videoconference screen on the wall and an open laptop next to a stack of case files tied with string.
NATIONAL

What would change at the Ungheni Court if documents were filed electronically only — and who stays on paper

The Government has approved a draft law obliging authorities, companies, individual entrepreneurs, the legal professions and natural persons assisted by a lawyer to file procedural documents exclusively in electronic form, and turning videoconference into a rule rather than an exception. A person who appears in court alone stays on paper — but the moment they hire a lawyer, they automatically move into the electronic regime. At the Ungheni Court, which serves the Ungheni and Nisporeni districts from a single building, the electronic system has been in pilot use since 2022 and recorded, in 2024, a single request for access to case files — compared with 107 at the Bălți Court.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Editorial illustration: a gas metering station, with pipes and valves, at a border marked by the flags of the European Union and the Republic of Moldova.
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81% of Moldova's gas comes in through Ungheni. From 5 August, a European rule changes who can reserve capacity at the border

From 5 August, the European rules on 'coupled capacity' become mandatory at the borders of the Republic of Moldova — including at Ungheni, the point through which 81.1% of imported gas entered the country in 2025. The rule is meant to open the market, but, without the European Union's fiscal architecture, around 21 of the 31 licensed suppliers would need either a place of business in Romania or a guarantee of roughly one million euros each. The head of gas trading at Energocom, Sergiu Lica, warns that small suppliers risk being pushed out of the market. For the household bill, though, this is not a 5 August shock.

Ion Calmis·20 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Symbolic illustration: an empty university lecture hall, rows of seats arranged in a semicircle, warm light falling from the blackboard, suggesting the places waiting for their students.
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9.013 budget-funded university places, most of them for teachers — the very field where Ungheni has 73 empty posts

The government has approved the state order for 2026–2027: state universities are opening 9.013 places with budget funding, and the largest share, as last year, goes to teacher training. For a graduate from Ungheni, the stakes are double — the district enters the new school year with 73 uncovered teaching posts, the fifth-largest shortfall in the country, and admissions, entirely online, start on July 27. On top of that comes a second door, the one in Romania, which closes even earlier.

Ion Calmis·16 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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The hands of an elderly person holding a mobile phone on a kitchen table, beside a cup and a notebook
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«Takes note»: what Parliament actually decided about phone scams — and why the anonymous SIM card stays legal until 2027

On 2 July, Parliament adopted a decision on the report of the inquiry commission into phone scams. We read its text in the state registry: article 1 says it «takes note» of the report. The National Anti-Fraud Focal Point has not been established — it has been recommended, and the government has 90 days, until 30 September, to report on what it has done. The two bills that would end the anonymity of SIM cards and oblige operators to block spoofed calls are still in first reading. Meanwhile, one thing already works: over 80% of the attempts reported to 112 were foiled.

Ion Calmis·15 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A mechanic seen from behind, beneath a car raised on a hydraulic lift in a vehicle inspection bay; metal shelves stacked with boxed car parts in the background
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«x lei» — that is what the government wrote where the price of approving an EU-imported car should be

Parliament has passed, in first reading, a law requiring type approval for every vehicle brought into the country and every car part placed on the market. Moldova has no such system today — and in the government's own tariff table, all eight services read «x lei». The only figure in the document is the European benchmark: 80–180 euros for an individual approval. The law takes effect only on 1 January 2029, and the Public Services Agency — the very body that will carry out the approvals — told the ministry that «the impact of the draft law on the national public budget cannot be positive».

Ion Calmis·14 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a car raised on a lift in a technical-inspection workshop, with tools and a work lamp, no people or readable plates in the frame.
NATIONAL

An expired technical inspection will automatically suspend your registration — what changes for drivers in Ungheni

On 9 July, Parliament passed, in the second reading, a law that automatically suspends the registration of vehicles with an expired periodic technical inspection or with dangerous defects. When the inspection expires, the suspension applies immediately; for defects, after 30 days during which you may only drive to a garage. Anyone driving with a suspended registration risks fines of up to 1,200 lei and having their plates removed. The law takes effect in six months. For Ungheni residents the stake is concrete: 87 people died on the district's roads over ten years, and the inspection is done in town at just three stations.

Ion Calmis·10 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Cows grazing on a hillside pasture in morning light, with a Moldovan village in the valley
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Money for milk sold, applications until 14 August: how many Ungheni farmers can actually get it

AIPA has opened the seventh call for direct payments in livestock farming — support per kilogram of milk sold in the second half of 2025, with applications until 14 August. On paper the sum is not small (the regulation's rate: 3 lei per kilogram of cow's milk, 5 lei for sheep's or goat's), but the conditions reserve it for authorised farms. And in Ungheni district, of the 1,738 cows left, only 195 are on farms; the rest, in people's yards, rarely reach the money.

Ion Calmis·6 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Symbolic illustration: a phone screen displaying a call from an unknown number, with a warning label, on a dark background — suggesting a suspicious call.
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Trap calls targeting the elderly: the bill requiring operators to block them has passed first reading

The opposition bill that would require telephone operators to detect and block calls with a spoofed number — the ones used above all to trick the elderly — passed its first reading in Parliament on 2 July, and for the second reading it will be merged with the Government’s “SIM card only with your ID” project. The same day, MPs also backed the creation of a National Anti-Fraud Focal Point, after the report of an inquiry commission that put 2025 fraud damage at a record of about 272 million lei. For Ungheni, where lonely elderly people are the favourite target of the “relative in trouble” or “from the bank” scheme, the spoofed number is precisely the trap.

Ion Calmis·4 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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