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An electrified railway with catenary poles stretching to the horizon at dusk, with a train in the distance.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

Moldova's first electrified railway will pass through Ungheni: Bucharest has approved electrifying the line to Iași, with works to 2028

The government in Bucharest has approved the technical-economic indicators for electrifying the railway line between Iași and the border with the Republic of Moldova — the administrative step that opens the way to the design-and-build tender. It is the Romanian half of a cross-border project that will give the Republic of Moldova its first kilometre of electrified railway, right through Ungheni and over the 'Eiffel' bridge across the Prut. For a border-gateway district, it is the most concrete railway promise yet.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a small rural medical-office building with a heating flue pipe and a newly built accessible entrance; warm light, no people in the frame.
LOCAL

€15,000 from Iași brings heating and a toilet to the family-doctor office in Cioropcani

At an extraordinary session on Thursday, the Ungheni District Council approved a 500,000-lei project that will give the Family Doctors' Office in Cioropcani heating, a sanitary unit and a proper entrance — basic conditions it still lacked. Most of the money, €15,000 out of €24,875, comes from the Iași County Council under a cross-border cooperation agreement signed back in 2009; the district adds the rest. At the same session, councillors allocated money from the district budget and approved writing off worn-out assets at two schools — the exact allocation sum has not yet been made public.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News