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Urban garden laid out in the centre of a small town, with flower beds, young shrubs, paths and benches, bordered by low buildings; warm summer light, no identifiable people.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Ungheni City Hall calls itself „just a partner” in the downtown garden — but it puts up half the budget

The green space between Înfrățirii Square and the Episcopal Cathedral, covering 0,8 hectares, is being turned into an „urban garden” through a cross-border project funded by the European Union. The total budget is 303.802,50 euros, and Ungheni City Hall states on its page that it is „just a partner”. Programme documents show, however, that the municipality holds the largest individual budget in the project — 152.261 euros, or 50,1% — more than the organisation leading the project. Work begins about five months before the completion deadline.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
A country road winding through hills planted with rows of vines, a small white village church in the distance on a summer afternoon. A symbolic image of rural tourism.
NATIONAL

The government promises 5,000 jobs from a 618-million-lei tourism programme. In Ungheni, where lodging has shrunk to a third, the money comes with no address

The government has approved «Turism 2029», a 618.2-million-lei programme that promises to turn tourism into an «engine of economic growth» and create about 5,000 jobs. It is the third such document in two decades — the first two were never seen through. The money comes mostly from the European Union, not the national budget, and the programme allocates no sum to any single district by name. For Ungheni, where accommodation capacity has fallen to a third of its 2008 level, the practical question is through which doors any of this money could actually reach here.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Illustration: diverse hands building together, on a table, a model of a community cultural space — a symbol of European-funded co-creation; warm tones, no identifiable faces.
LOCAL

Who in Ungheni can get EU money for culture? Two calls close on 20 July

Ungheni District Council has announced two funding calls under the European programme EU4Culture II — a €10 million programme, funded by the EU and implemented by the Goethe-Institut, that also covers the Republic of Moldova. The application deadline is 20 July 2026. In the programme's first edition, only Cahul and Orhei won from Moldova; Ungheni was not among them — even though the town already has a cultural scene watered by European money.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· Explainer
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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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Two participants in a working meeting inside the Ungheni Tourist Information Centre, next to a stand with tourist leaflets, shelves of books and diplomas.
LOCAL

Ungheni has a tourist centre worth 3 million lei, but accommodation capacity has dropped to a third of its 2008 level

The Tourist Information Centre in Ungheni — built with almost 3 million lei under the European «Mayors for Economic Growth» programme — hosted expert Alberto Cottica on Thursday in a meeting described as an «exchange of ideas», with no concrete purpose announced. Beyond the visit, the figures show the real stakes: the centre promotes tourism, but the district's accommodation capacity has fallen to a third of its 2008 level, while the programme that funded it has meanwhile entered its third phase.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· Explainer
Illustration: the warm, bright interior of a small home — a sofa, a wooden table, a curtained window and plants; a domestic, homely atmosphere, no people in the frame.
PUBLIC SERVICES

A home in Sculeni, part of a reform moving people out of institutions into the community

One of the eight community homes for people with severe intellectual disabilities in Moldova is in Sculeni, Ungheni district. It is part of a cross-border project funded by the European Union, which is modernising 12 social buildings, and in June the homes' staff were trained in ethics, person-centred care and crisis de-escalation. Behind it lies a quiet but profound reform: moving people out of large institutions into small homes in the community. It is advancing slowly — and that is why it is worth watching.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· Explainer
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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Two workers assemble the formwork of a water-retention basin on the building site of the French Park in Ungheni; in the background, trees and machinery.
PUBLIC SERVICES

The French Park in Ungheni is changing its face: skatepark, padel and 5,217 m² of sports grounds on the bank of the Prut

The largest green space in the Ungheni municipality is a full building site. Besides the underground networks, the parkour zone, the skatepark and the water-retention basins are already taking shape, and on about 4 hectares there will be sports grounds — including for padel — playgrounds, cycling paths and running tracks. The money comes from two projects, one European and one national, and the healthy trees stay in place: the park was scanned by drone before the works.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
Illustration: a young female entrepreneur checks documents next to a laptop showing charts, in a bright small shop.
ECONOMY & FEZ

Ungheni hosts three days of free training for first-time entrepreneurs from four districts

On 14–16 July, in Ungheni, people who want to start a business — or have just started one — from the Ungheni, Fălești, Nisporeni and Călărași districts can learn for free, from specialists, how to keep a firm afloat. The programme, funded from European money, has reached its eighth round. The hook isn't festive, though: in the Ungheni district, businesses employed over 700 fewer people in 2024 than in 2021, and wages remain a fifth below the national average.

Ion Calmis·17 June 2026· News
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