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A red crane lifting a girder segment next to a massive concrete abutment at the Prut river bridge construction site near Ungheni; to the right, a group in high-visibility vests inspects the works.
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A8 motorway contract to Ungheni suspended by court: 3.5 billion lei and 5 km on the Moldovan side, blocked

The Bucharest Court of Appeal suspended on August 5 the contract for the DN24–Ungheni Border section of the A8 motorway. Construction cannot begin until the disputes are resolved, with a hearing set for September 30. The approximately 5-km segment in the Republic of Moldova — from the bridge to the Ungheni bypass — is caught in the same ruling.

Ion Calmis·31 August 2026· NewsWHAT'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