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Moldovan lei banknotes on a desk, next to a pen and a payslip.
NATIONAL

560 million lei in one-off payments: 4,000 lei for teachers, 3,000 for doctors and police, 2,000 for workers

The Government approved a budget amendment on 2 September, allocating 560 million lei for one-off payments to public-sector employees whose average monthly salary is below 20,000 lei. Amounts: 4,000 lei for education staff, 3,000 for social services, healthcare, defence, law enforcement, culture and administration, 2,000 for workers. The payments compensate for the postponement of salary increases from 1 September to 1 January 2027.

Ion Calmis·3 September 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
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