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Illustration: a modern, bright school laboratory with desks, microscopes and digital screens, no people in the frame.
NATIONAL

€51.5 million for 20 model schools: Ungheni's “Mihai Eminescu” makes the EIB modernization list

The “Mihai Eminescu” Theoretical High School in Ungheni — one of the largest schools in the Centru region — is the only institution from the Ungheni district among the 20 that Moldova will modernize with European money, under a €51.5 million programme financed mainly by the European Investment Bank. Most of the money, €40 million, is a loan. The sum that will reach Ungheni has not been disclosed, and the school was already given an energy retrofit two years ago — a sign the new money targets what is inside. The backdrop: the district enters the new school year with 73 teaching vacancies, three of them at “Eminescu”.

Ion Calmis·19 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A moped parked at the edge of a country road, a helmet hanging from the handlebar, an empty village lane in the background in evening light
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Minors on motorcycles, a worry that has reached Petrești too. The fine targets the parent — up to 4,500 lei

A Petrești resident's post about children on motorcycles drew dozens of reactions and an old grievance: 'the police do nothing'. Behind the frustration, though, lie clear rules and rising numbers. Under 16, a child may not legally drive anything on a public road; and when they do climb onto two wheels, the Contravention Code hits the parent first — with fines of up to 4,500 lei. Nationally, the number of children injured in road crashes reached its highest level in years in 2025.

Ion Calmis·19 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Banknotes and coins on a wooden table, next to a calculator, a pen and a pay slip with blurred lines — illustrative image.
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Parliament ties the minimum wage to the average economy salary — and in Ungheni people earn 3,700 lei below the national average

Parliament voted for the adequacy of the minimum wage to be measured against 50% of the average economy salary — a European benchmark that shows just how low today's minimum really is. Set against the figures of Ungheni district, where the average salary is about 3,700 lei below the national average, the stakes are twofold: the «decency» threshold is still far off, and across the Prut the minimum wage is more than twice as high.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Aerial view over wooded hills in light morning mist, a green clearing and a dirt forest road — illustrative image.
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Moldova counts its forests for the first time in history. In Ungheni, no one officially knows even how much is left

The government has approved the first National Forest Inventory in the history of the Republic of Moldova — a five-year process worth 2.4 million euros, funded largely by Romania. Only then will the country know exactly how much forest it has. For Ungheni district the stakes are direct: official statistics publish no forest-cover percentage for the district, while the forests managed here — from the Plaiul Fagului reserve to the strips beside the villages — are quietly cut in winter for firewood.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
An ashtray with a stubbed-out cigarette on the windowsill of an apartment block, a no-smoking sign blurred in the background, morning light
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From 24 June, smoking in a block's stairwell or on your own balcony becomes an offence. An Ungheni resident risks up to 2,250 lei

A national law (no. 125/2025) sharply widens, from 24 June, the list of places where smoking is banned — from sports grounds, bus stops and beaches to apartment-block stairwells and your own balcony — and raises the fines: up to 2,250 lei for a person and up to 15,000 for a company, with suspension of activity. The police write the ticket. In a town where almost one adult in three smokes, one question is left hanging: where will people still be allowed to smoke? Ungheni City Hall promised a list of designated spots — but has not published it yet.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
An old wooden freight wagon on rusty tracks at dusk, with a worn suitcase on the empty platform.
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The state compensates assets confiscated by the Soviet regime. In Ungheni, the memory of the deportations counts thousands of names

The Government has allocated over 1.8 million lei to compensate six people whose assets the communist regime confiscated. The sum is small, but it opens a door to a vast and unfinished reckoning: in the Ungheni district alone, the official catalogue of the victims of totalitarianism gathers thousands of names, from more than 60 localities. The law gives victims and heirs the right to compensation — but how many actually claim it?

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A mobile phone, a SIM card and a generic identity document on a dark wooden table, in dramatic light.
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A SIM card only with your ID: what the new anti-fraud measure changes, and why an ageing district like Ungheni is a target

The Government has decided that prepaid SIM cards will be activated only on the basis of an identity document, to cut into the anonymity used by scammers. Telephone and online fraud has exploded — from 40 million lei in 2023 to over 272 million in 2025. For a district like Ungheni, with many elderly people left alone while their relatives are abroad, the measure touches a nerve: here a woman was tricked out of more than 436,000 lei, and the most exposed are precisely those over 66.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
An apple orchard on hills at sunset, with rows of young trees and a cold-storage warehouse in the distance.
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Moldova negotiates 150 million euros for orchards and vineyards. How much can a district like Ungheni get, where plantations have thinned

Parliament has cleared the way for negotiations on a new European loan of 150 million euros, «Livada Moldovei II», for horticulture, viticulture and irrigation. The money is plentiful, but it comes as a loan, not a gift — and the first programme absorbed only three quarters of its funds. For the Ungheni district, where the area of orchards has fallen by a fifth in a decade, the real question is not how much is given nationally, but whether the money reaches here too.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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The hands of an elderly person and a younger one holding a small house together, against a hillside village in autumn light
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In Ungheni, one in four people is a pensioner. Who really pays for the pensions and the hospital

Moldova's pensions and healthcare ran nearly 67 billion lei through the system in 2025, and parliament reviewed the execution reports on Monday. Behind the announced 'surplus' lies an ever harder arithmetic: 1.18 workers support one pensioner, and the pension fund only stays afloat because 41% of the money comes from the state budget. An ageing, largely rural district like Ungheni — 19,709 pensioners and a population down by a fifth in a decade — feels this pressure more acutely than the average. And it is here that the trap of the unpaid health policy hits hardest.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE