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The interior of a small, empty courtroom, with wooden benches, a videoconference screen on the wall and an open laptop next to a stack of case files tied with string.
NATIONAL

What would change at the Ungheni Court if documents were filed electronically only — and who stays on paper

The Government has approved a draft law obliging authorities, companies, individual entrepreneurs, the legal professions and natural persons assisted by a lawyer to file procedural documents exclusively in electronic form, and turning videoconference into a rule rather than an exception. A person who appears in court alone stays on paper — but the moment they hire a lawyer, they automatically move into the electronic regime. At the Ungheni Court, which serves the Ungheni and Nisporeni districts from a single building, the electronic system has been in pilot use since 2022 and recorded, in 2024, a single request for access to case files — compared with 107 at the Bălți Court.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Seven people posing standing, under the coat of arms of Ungheni municipality, in the City Hall meeting room: City Hall employees, mayor Vitalie Vrabie in the centre and Peace Corps volunteer Megan Knox.
LOCAL

Ungheni City Hall advertised, 16 months ago, the very job for which it is now getting an American volunteer for free

On 13 July, City Hall announced that Megan Knox — a Peace Corps volunteer who came from Seattle — is joining the team for two years, to digitalise its services. The natural question is why not a Polytechnic graduate, from Ungheni. The answer is in City Hall's own archive: on 21 March 2025 it advertised the post of “IT specialist (in Digital Transformation)” — and it asked not for engineering, but for public administration, economics or law. No result of that competition was ever published, and the mayor says now that he still wants the person. City Hall's best-paid specialist earns 8,960 lei a month; the average in IT services is 49,654. And the job itself — “digitalisation specialist” — is not allowed to exist, as a title, in the staffing schedule of any city hall in Moldova.

Ion Calmis·13 July 2026· Analysis