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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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Ungheni mayor Vitalie Vrabie shows an album of the town to Germany's ambassador, Hubert Knirsch, in the mayor's office
LOCAL

Germany's ambassador in Ungheni: €2.9 million for water is German money, but Mihai Eminescu Lyceum is EU-funded

Germany's ambassador, Hubert Knirsch, paid a working visit to Ungheni on 25 June, where Mayor Vitalie Vrabie credited 'German support through GIZ' for the water network, the Mihai Eminescu Lyceum and a socio-medical centre. The real picture is more nuanced: some projects are direct German money — €2.9 million in the first water-and-sewage phase alone, plus a day-care centre opened in 2025 — while others are EU funds that the German agency GIZ merely implemented. The two sides agreed to meet again, this time on inter-municipal public services.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· News
A group of people at the AlgaVet veterinary clinic in Ungheni, in front of an ALGA banner, holding a plaque «German Cooperation — Supported by the German Embassy» and a small Moldovan flag; two of them hold puppies.
LOCAL

50 community cats in Ungheni will be neutered with German support — in a district hit by rabies

At AlgaVet Ungheni — the social clinic of the ALGA association — a partnership with the German Embassy was signed on 25 June: medical equipment, training for young vets, and the neutering of 50 of the town's community cats. It looks like a small gesture, but it touches a real public-health problem: in 2025, Ungheni district was the country's second by number of rabies cases, and the authorities link the risk directly to stray animals.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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Illustration: a line of tractors parked on a road near a border crossing, during a farmers' protest.
NATIONAL

At Sculeni, the farmers' protest blocked the border crossing on 25 June, reopened only toward evening

The farmers' protest against the rise in agricultural VAT reached the border of Ungheni district on 25 June: farm machinery blocked access to the Sculeni border crossing, along with three other customs points and several national roads. According to the Border Police, traffic at Sculeni was restored only around 6 p.m. It is the official-source confirmation of what we had flagged as possible: the protest touched Ungheni directly.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Aerial view of the steel railway bridge over the Prut River at Ungheni, with the railway track and the surrounding locality, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The railway bridge over the Prut at Ungheni goes under technical assessment — a step toward Moldova's first electrified railway stretch

After Bucharest approved the electrification of the Iași–border line, the Moldovan side got to work: on 25 June, representatives of the Railway of Moldova met in Iași with their Romanian counterparts to coordinate the Iași–Ungheni line project. Among the agreed steps — the technical assessment of the bridge over the Prut, which is to be reconstructed, and preparing the systems for the future electrification, to European standards.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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Illustration: an elderly person's hands holding a phone showing an incoming call from an unknown number, in a modest interior — a suggestion of phone fraud.
LOCAL

«You're being investigated by the SIS!»: an Ungheni woman lost 229,000 lei, and police caught two couriers at the second drop

A 53-year-old woman from Ungheni was manipulated over the phone through a three-step scheme — a code received by SMS, a fake bank employee, then a fake representative of the Information and Security Service threatening her with arrest. She handed over 229,000 lei. As the second instalment, of 220,000 lei, was being delivered, police intervened and caught two couriers red-handed. The case, described by the Ungheni Police Inspectorate, is the third of its kind we have documented in under a month.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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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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Collage of four young women graduates, each labelled with her name and high school: Ionela Lefter and Anastasia Rusu — «Vasile Alecsandri» High School, Andreea Mușet — «Alexandr Pușkin» High School, and Doina Prepeliță — «Ion Creangă» High School.
EDUCATION & HEALTH

Six Ungheni graduates earned straight 10s at the Baccalaureate: the country's second town, after Chișinău

After appeals, six graduates from the town of Ungheni finished the 2026 Baccalaureate with a top mark of 10, not four: Ionela Lefter, Andreea Mușet, Doina Prepeliță, Alexandrina Rîsîpanu, Anastasia Rusu and Nichita Țurea. Nationally the final figure is 114 candidates, up from 85 in the preliminary results. Among the country's towns, Ungheni comes right after Chișinău — and four of the six are from the same high school.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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An old, rusty cast-iron water main dug up in a muddy trench in the middle of a street; water leaks from a joint, with a worn manhole cover nearby.
PUBLIC SERVICES

Ungheni's water is being modernised for tens of millions, yet it keeps breaking: 270 failures in a year on half-century-old pipes

Two outages in two days, on different streets, and the operator itself admits in the notice that „failures on the distribution network cannot be anticipated”. The explanation is in the figures: Ungheni municipality has about 139 kilometres of water pipes, more than 80% of them cast iron and steel aged 45–60 years, and in 2024 there were nearly 270 unplanned failures — around five a week. The big money invested in „Ungheni's water” (a project of about 32 million lei, plus European funds) went, however, to the source and to transport — the treatment plant, the trunk main, monitoring — not to replacing the pipes under the streets. That is why the water is both being modernised and constantly cut off.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· Explainer