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About fifteen people in office attire posing on the steps at the entrance of a building whose sign reads “Primăria municipiului Ungheni”, on a sunny summer day.
LOCAL

The Dutch model shown in Ungheni: 342 municipalities instead of 1,121, but the number has not changed since 2023

Eric Geurts, mayor of the municipality of Beekdaelen in the south of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, met on Tuesday in Ungheni with the mayors of the localities going through voluntary amalgamation. The municipality he leads is itself the product of a merger: it was created on 1 January 2019 out of three municipalities that asked to be merged, through a law passed by the Dutch parliament. The Netherlands has gone from 1,121 municipalities in 1899 to 342 today — but the number has not moved since 2023, and the most-cited studies there show that mergers cut administration costs without raising spending on services, and lastingly reduced voter turnout. The public consultation on the Ungheni merger closes on Wednesday.

Ion Calmis·22 July 2026· Explainer
A yellow surveying GPS receiver on a tripod and a total station stand in a green field at the edge of a village, against the backdrop of a public building, a fence and red-roofed houses. A symbolic image.
NATIONAL

The state is investing 96 million lei in the cadastre of public property. 16 localities in the Ungheni district are included — not «all the town halls», as the announcement implied

A national project funded from the state budget, within the EU-backed Growth Plan, will delimit and register public property in 275 localities across Moldova by 2028. The cadastre agency's leadership visited the Ungheni district between 16 and 26 June. The official statement speaks of «275 town halls», but the government document says otherwise — «localities»: from the Ungheni district, 16 of its 74 localities are covered. The stake is not technical: without a correctly registered plot or building, a town hall cannot tax it, pledge it, sell it or legally develop it.

Ion Calmis·26 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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