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Explanatory diagram of the four checks carried out on entry into Romania at the Sculeni Border Crossing Point: the travel document, the Schengen Information System, the Interpol databases and the Entry/Exit biometric registration.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

Six detections at Sculeni in seven months. What the booth Ungheni residents cross actually checks

On 29 July, at the Sculeni Border Crossing Point, Romanian border police officers detained a citizen of the Republic of Moldova wanted under a European arrest warrant issued by Finland. The accusations have not been tried by any court. The case is the anchor of an explainer about what the booth through which Ungheni district leaves for the European Union actually checks — four layers of control and, since 2 March 2026, the facial image and four fingerprints.

Ion Calmis·30 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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A passage of play on a football pitch with dry grass, in evening light: players in fluorescent green and navy blue shirts chase the ball, with spectators and houses in the background.
LOCAL

Sculeni wiped out a 0–4, but the «MAGIRUS» Cup final in Ungheni is Mănoilești – Unirea Cetireni

The return legs of the semifinals in the Ungheni District Football Cup, the «MAGIRUS», were played on Sunday, 26 July, and settled both finalists. FC Mănoilești won 5–1 at Bumbăta and goes into the final 7–1 on aggregate. In the other semifinal, FC Sculeni led 4–0 at Cetireni at the end of the 90 minutes and had wiped out the entire first-leg lead, but FC Unirea Cetireni qualified on penalties, 5–3.

Ion Calmis·26 July 2026· News
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A freshly modernised village road, with new asphalt and markings, lined with houses and trees, under the summer sky.
LOCAL

Burebista Street in Sculeni enters construction: how a half-billion state programme reaches the village

The Sculeni commune hall announced on 23 July the start of works to modernise Burebista Street, through a government programme for repairing local roads, “Europe is Near”. The project, approved by the council in May 2025 after consultations with residents, was put out to a tender worth over 4 million lei, to which five firms applied — but the winner is not yet public, and the procedure went through a challenge upheld in full by the disputes authority. This is a different Burebista Street from the one refurbished in Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·24 July 2026· Explainer
Hall of a cultural center in a Moldovan village, with rows of empty chairs prepared for a public assembly, warm afternoon light through the windows.
LOCAL

General assembly in Costuleni on Sunday at 16.00, on the single commune. Cioropcani asks its residents online: “Do you agree?”

The amalgamation consultation is coming down to residents' level. The Costuleni mayor's office — part of the largest commune proposed in the district, formed around Ungheni municipality, with around 42.300 residents — calls the village to the Cultural Center on Sunday, July 19, and has put into circulation the vision document of the new administrative unit. In parallel, the Cioropcani mayor's office, from the Sculeni cluster, has launched a bilingual online questionnaire on the draft decision and the development priorities. The council votes are scheduled by the end of the month.

Ion Calmis·18 July 2026· News
At night, at a pedestrian crossing on a road in Sculeni: a flashing amber signal lit on a pole, above a pedestrian-crossing sign, while the zebra crossing's asphalt is lit red by a projector.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Sculeni adds flashing amber signals and red night lighting at the Ștefan cel Mare crossing — the commune's third reinforced crossing in a month

At one of Sculeni's busiest pedestrian crossings, on the Ștefan cel Mare road, the commune hall has installed two flashing amber signals, and at night the crossing is washed in red projector light. It is the third road-safety intervention in the commune in about a month — after the raised crossing by the lyceum and the painted crossing at Gherman — and each time with a different method.

Ion Calmis·8 July 2026· News
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A raised pedestrian crossing with red-and-white markings at a junction in Sculeni, with pedestrian-crossing and speed-bump signs; in the background, a tree-lined road.
PUBLIC SERVICES

578 pupils study next to the Sculeni junction where a raised pedestrian crossing now forces cars to slow down

At the junction of Ion Creangă and Alexandru cel Bun streets in Sculeni, next to the theoretical lyceum, the Arts School and the Health Centre, a raised pedestrian crossing has been built — the kind that physically forces drivers to slow down. The work was carried out by the National Roads Administration, after a request that began with local councillor Petru Iacobciuc.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
A footballer in a yellow-and-black kit runs with the ball on a village pitch, chased by opponents in blue and white, under a cloudy sky, with spectators along the touchline.
LOCAL

5-2 at Bumbăta, the biggest score of the «MAGIRUS» Cup quarter-final first legs

On Sunday, 5 July, all four first-leg matches of the quarter-finals of the Ungheni district football cup, «MAGIRUS», were played. According to the organiser, the Ungheni Territorial Football Association, FC Haiduc Bumbăta produced the round's biggest score — 5-2 against FC Barsa Ungheni — while FC Regina Maria Ungheni beat FC Unirea Cetireni 2-0. In the other two ties, FC Sculeni and FC Mănoilești won narrowly, 1-0 and 2-1, so everything will be decided in the return legs a week from now.

Ion Calmis·5 July 2026· News
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Symbolic illustration: the interior of a modern car at dusk, seen from the rear seat toward the windshield; a red emergency button glows on the overhead console, with a stylized signal radiating from it toward a cold map in the background showing a winding road and a border river. No identifiable people, no real accident scene.
NATIONAL

87 dead in ten years on Ungheni's roads: the «car that calls 112 by itself» reaches Parliament

Moldova is laying the groundwork for eCall — the technology that, in a crash, automatically dials 112 and transmits the point of impact, even if no one in the car can still make the call. The bill that introduces it into the 112 Service Law is due for a first reading; it is not yet law, and it takes effect only in 2027. In the Ungheni district, where road accidents killed 87 people and injured more than 400 over a decade, the promise is the «golden hour». But the benefit lands slowly: eCall comes only on new EU-approved cars, and more than 80% of Moldova's cars are older than ten years.

Ion Calmis·1 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Illustration: a household tap with the last drop of water dripping out, against a dried-out garden under a strong summer sun, with no identifiable people.
LOCAL

Three hours of water a day across four sectors: Sculeni rations water amid the heatwave

At the peak of the heatwave, Sculeni commune’s City Hall and the “Servicom Sculeni” utility have put water on a ration. From Tuesday, 30 June, the village was split into four sectors, each getting water for only three hours a day, between 9.00 and 18.00. The reason, the authority says: huge consumption for watering gardens and irresponsible use of the network, which collapsed the pressure. Water trouble in Sculeni is not new — the council passed decisions on it in both 2024 and 2025.

Ion Calmis·29 June 2026· News
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