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First road bridge over the Prut in 60 years, ready in July at Ungheni. The A8 motorway, still out to tender

Moldova and Romania have opened negotiations on a new agreement on strategic transport infrastructure, whose flagship project is the road bridge between Ungheni and Zagarancea, over the Prut. It will be the first road crossing at Ungheni and the first motorway-grade bridge over the river in six decades, funded with European money. But the bridge will be ready before the roads that are supposed to feed it — a gap that shows both the ambition and the limits of integration.