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A sheaf of wheat ears tied with twine, next to an old office calculator with beige keys, on a wooden table in the morning light.
NATIONAL

2027 fiscal policy adopted: an Ungheni employee keeps 1,238 lei a year, and cereals stay at 8% VAT until 2028

On 22 October Parliament adopted the package of fiscal and customs policies for 2027. The personal exemption rises from 29,700 to 40,020 lei a year, and the exemption for children from 9,900 to 11,040 lei. At the 12% rate, an employee entitled to the personal exemption pays about 1,238 lei less tax a year. Ungheni district had 15,935 employees at the end of 2025, so the effect of the personal exemption across the district comes to at most 19.7 million lei a year. Compared with the August draft, cereals and oilseeds stay at 8% VAT until 31 December 2027, while livestock farming, crop farming and horticulture move to 12%.

Ion Calmis·22 October 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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Illustration: young people talking with company representatives at booths during a job fair in a bright hall.
ECONOMY & FEZ

In Ungheni, the number of young people has halved in 11 years — and a job fair is looking for a reason to keep them

On Thursday, 25 June, a youth NGO and volunteers run a job fair for young people in Ungheni. The event lasts three hours; the problem it touches has lasted a decade. The number of 15–34-year-olds in the district has halved since 2014, wages are almost a fifth below the national average, and nearly a third of the region's young people are neither in school nor at work. And yet jobs do exist — the paradox that, in fact, tells the whole story.

Ion Calmis·16 June 2026· Analysis