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A mobile phone, a SIM card and a generic identity document on a dark wooden table, in dramatic light.
NATIONAL

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.
NATIONAL

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
Hillside vineyards at sunset, with a field of ripe wheat and a small farm in the distance
NATIONAL

Farm subsidies 2026–2030: EU-style rules decide who gets the 18.9 billion lei

The government has approved an agricultural subsidy programme for 2026–2030 under which the annual fund grows from 2.3 to 5.3 billion lei. Nearly three quarters of the money goes to investment rather than per-head livestock payments, and the new EU-style conditions require farmers to keep records that many small producers simply don't have. For a farming, largely rural district like Ungheni, the subsidy becomes a tool for modernisation — but also a filter.

Ion Calmis·3 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A small village scattered across hills at dusk, ringed by empty fields that separate it from other distant hamlets
NATIONAL

23 of 33 town halls in Ungheni district fall below the reform's proposed 3,000-resident threshold

The government is preparing the most sweeping local-administration reform in years: a 3,000-resident threshold for a viable town hall, voluntary amalgamation of localities and the reduction of the 32 districts to 10. Nationwide, more than 700 decisions to launch the process have already been adopted. A newsroom calculation shows that, in Ungheni district, 23 of the 33 town halls fall below the proposed threshold. Five villages in the district are already discussing a merger, and the mayors' association is warning against forced amalgamation.

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