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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.
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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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Moldovan car license plates and a stack of vehicle documents on a counter in a public-services office.
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Imported car with no original papers? Ungheni drivers no longer travel to Chișinău or Bălți to register it

Since late June, the Public Services Agency has simplified the registration of imported cars that lack original documents or have only a copy of the registration certificate. The step that forced owners to drive the car to one of three identification offices — in Chișinău, Bălți or Cahul — and wait up to three days has been dropped: technical identification is now done at any subdivision that registers vehicles, including in Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·3 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Symbolic illustration: an empty college classroom with desks and a blackboard in morning light; on the teacher's desk, a book and a few lei banknotes — suggesting the scholarship as the stake of education.
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73 empty teaching posts and ever fewer nurses: what the scholarship reform really brings Ungheni

The government has approved raising scholarships by at least 40% from 1 September, with the biggest increases in medicine, education and STEAM — exactly the professions Ungheni district lacks most acutely, with 73 vacant teaching posts and 94 fewer nurses in eight years. Except that the lever sits with the universities in Chișinău: students at the town's two colleges get a much smaller rise, of 1,280–1,495 lei, and a scholarship student is never obliged to end up at a teaching post in Sculeni.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Official map of section 4 of the A8 motorway: the blue route from DN24 (Iași) to the customs point, through Victoria, Aroneanu and Golăiești, up to the edge of the Republic of Moldova; the bridge over the Prut at Ungheni marked in magenta.
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The A8 motorway reaches the Prut and crosses to our bank: Moldova's first motorway kilometres, paid for by Romania

On 2 July, in Bucharest, the contract was signed for the final section of the “Union” Motorway (A8) — the 15.5 km between Iași and the Prut, but also, for the first time, 4.7 km of motorway on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, from the future bridge at Ungheni to the town's bypass. The works on the Moldovan bank, worth around 64 million euros, are fully covered by the Romanian side, through the European SAFE programme. It is the missing piece in the file of the Ungheni bridge — but the motorway stops at Ungheni, not at Chișinău, and the timeline remains long.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE