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Official map of section 4 of the A8 motorway: the blue route from DN24 (Iași) to the customs point, through Victoria, Aroneanu and Golăiești, up to the edge of the Republic of Moldova; the bridge over the Prut at Ungheni marked in magenta.
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The A8 motorway reaches the Prut and crosses to our bank: Moldova's first motorway kilometres, paid for by Romania

On 2 July, in Bucharest, the contract was signed for the final section of the “Union” Motorway (A8) — the 15.5 km between Iași and the Prut, but also, for the first time, 4.7 km of motorway on the territory of the Republic of Moldova, from the future bridge at Ungheni to the town's bypass. The works on the Moldovan bank, worth around 64 million euros, are fully covered by the Romanian side, through the European SAFE programme. It is the missing piece in the file of the Ungheni bridge — but the motorway stops at Ungheni, not at Chișinău, and the timeline remains long.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
Illustration: a grain-laden truck on a country road through golden summer fields at sunset; no people or readable plates in frame.
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128,000 tonnes on 383 kilometres: what the new EU truck rules mean for Ungheni's roads

Parliament has passed, in first reading, a law replacing today's weight limits — which differ from one road to another — with a single set aligned to EU standards, and it introduces the concept of TEN-T roads. For Ungheni — an agricultural district that hauls some 128,000 tonnes of grain and sunflower a year over 383 kilometres of roads, and through which the European railway to Iași will pass — the stake is who pays for the roads. Importantly, the weight limits take effect only upon EU accession.

Ion Calmis·21 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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