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The Lake Delia promenade in Ungheni, with grey paving laid along the water and, next to it, strips of gravel not yet landscaped, edged with kerbs, under a cloudy sky
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Lake Delia promenade: the site board gave completion as 24 September, the tender required 5 months from the notice to proceed

The 24 September 2026 deadline on the construction site board of the Lake Delia promenade has passed, and the works are continuing. The tender documents, however, require 5 months of execution from the notice to proceed (start order), and the contract is valid until 31 December 2026. Counted from the start date on the board, 24 June, the 5 months would end on 24 November. According to the model agreement approved in Ungheni, the money from Cluj-Napoca is paid after the works are accepted.

Ion Calmis·23 October 2026· News
The Lake Delia promenade in Ungheni, with grey paving laid along the water and, next to it, strips of still unfinished gravel edged by kerbs, under an overcast sky
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Ungheni's lakeside promenade on Lake Delia, over 470 metres long, is now paved. Cycle lanes and green areas come next

Paving has been laid on the promenade of more than 470 metres along Lake Delia, the Ungheni City Hall says. Pedestrian areas, cycle lanes, green spaces and spots for trade are still to come. The contract with the company Balt-Cons is worth 5,759,683 lei including VAT, and Cluj-Napoca's share is transferred after the works are formally accepted.

Ion Calmis·20 October 2026· News
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Project rendering of a promenade on a lake shore: a paved walkway, a red bike lane, long concrete benches with wooden slats, trees and blocks of flats in the background, with a few passers-by, a cyclist and a young man on a scooter.
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39% of the first stage of Ungheni's Lake Delia promenade comes from Cluj

The Cluj-Napoca Local Council voted on 20 July to give 593,000 Romanian lei (RON) for the development of the promenade on Lake Delia in Ungheni. The financing agreement, annexed to the decision of the Ungheni Municipal Council, shows that the first stage costs €288,387.80 — about 5.8 million Moldovan lei (MDL) — and that the Cluj share amounts to €113,247.88, that is 39.3% of the total. The remaining 60.7% is paid by Ungheni. The contract was awarded back in May to SRL Balt-Cons of Pîrlița, for 5,759,683.36 Moldovan lei including VAT, and the request to Cluj had gone out as early as December.

Ion Calmis·29 July 2026· Analysis
A yellow road roller and an asphalt paver work on a freshly paved street in a residential neighbourhood of Ungheni; workers and a dump truck in the distance, under a cloudy sky.
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Two more streets paved in Ungheni Vale, „from the local budget”. One is on the 10-million-lei road list, funded by debt

Ungheni City Hall announced on Friday that it had paved two more streets in the Ungheni Vale neighbourhood — Arcașii lui Ștefan and Suceava, 850 metres, „from the City Hall budget”. One of them, Arcașii lui Ștefan, appears however on the list of roads that the Municipal Council approved in May to be modernised from the 10-million-lei loan raised through municipal bonds — money that the people of Ungheni will repay, with interest. The decision publishes only the total ceiling, not how much each street costs.

Ion Calmis·10 July 2026· News
Illustration generated by artificial intelligence: on a desk, an open official folder next to an administrative map on which several small localities are linked by lines to a common centre; warm office light.
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600,000 lei for Ungheni's merger: Vrabie requested the first incentive and rejects the accusation of a 'forced' amalgamation

Vitalie Vrabie, mayor of the town of Ungheni, says he has already filed the request for the first financial incentive of the amalgamation — 600,000 lei, state money, calculated by the number of residents. In an interview on TVR Moldova, he rejects the accusation that the merger of the communities around the town is 'formal, forced, rushed' and maintains that the initiative came from the neighbouring mayors, not from him. The documents confirm his figure and the procedure; critics of the reform, however, point out that a 'voluntary' amalgamation, incentivised with billions and doubled by a mandatory one after 2027, is only half voluntary.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· Explainer
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AI-generated illustration: a freshly paved city street with crisp white markings in warm evening light — a symbol of roads financed through municipal bonds.
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Ungheni borrows 10 million lei for roads on the capital market: what municipal bonds are

The town of Ungheni is borrowing 10 million lei to modernise its streets — not through a classic bank loan, but by issuing municipal bonds, that is debt securities that both residents and companies can buy. Mayor Vitalie Vrabie presented the issue at a national event in Chișinău on 1 July, alongside Leova and Ceadîr-Lunga. It is the first time Ungheni has turned to the capital market, and at 10 million lei it becomes the largest issue by a Moldovan town after the capital, from the publicly known figures. The money goes to an already approved list of roads; the interest will be paid, over time, by the local budget — that is, by the people of Ungheni.

Ion Calmis·2 July 2026· Explainer
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