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The capital’s authorities have signed a contract for work on the “Expansion of Mircea cel Bătrân Boulevard” project. This is the first phase of one of the capital’s largest infrastructure projects in recent years, according to the Chisinau City Hall.
The 2026 transportation budget includes investments totaling nearly one billion Romanian lei (nearly 4 billion Moldovan lei). Nearly half of this amount will go toward the construction of a highway connecting Romania with the Republic of Moldova.
It will last three days—from July 17 to 19. The Chisinau City Hall invites residents and visitors to the capital to a three-day music festival.
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and Caritas Moldova have launched the next phase of the “Case pentru Toți” initiative (“Homes for All”), which aims to transition from emergency humanitarian aid to long-term housing solutions for vulnerable populations, including Ukrainian refugees.
Prime Ministerial candidate Vasile Tofan and representatives of local government have found common ground on the issue of implementing local government reform. That common ground is European integration.
Another street in Chisinau is set to be renovated. Repair work has begun on Florilor Street in the capital’s Riscani sector, according to the Chisinau City Hall.
Starting September 1, public transportation in Bălți will be free for all passengers on Wednesdays. This was announced by Mayor Alexandr Petkov.
Big things start small. A 1.23-kilometer “white version” of a rural road has been built in the village of Telitsa (Anenii Noi District) with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) program in Moldova.
By the end of this year, more than 270 elevators in apartment buildings in Chisinau are scheduled to be repaired and modernized.
The Romanian company Ecovillas announced the start of development on LAGO Homes, a residential complex of approximately 100 homes on the shores of Lake Gidigich, near Chisinau.
The Transnistrian authorities have not given up hope of successfully selling the Bender River Port, which is owned by the (internationally unrecognized) state. The facility will once again be put up for privatization. The owner intends to raise at least 1.2 million rubles (local currency, presumably, approximately $74,500).
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the real estate market crisis and its causes. But these discussions are fragmented and not always logically connected. The problem, however, is complex and interconnected. That is precisely why “picking out” individual facts or statistical data and commenting on them without considering the broader chain of factors can lead us down the wrong path in our search for the causes of the crisis.
The Chisinau authorities have promised to conduct a tender that is as transparent as possible to select a contractor for the project to renovate the capital’s city hall building.
The capital’s municipal council finally managed to approve Chisinau’s 2026 budget in two readings at once.
Today, the draft city budget for 2026 was once again submitted for consideration at a meeting of the Chisinau City Council. The plan is to vote on it in two readings.
The Ministry of Education and Research has decided that “first-graders should study alongside third- or fourth-graders. Fourth-graders should serve as mentors.”
The authorities have decided not to change course and to continue reforming local public administration (LPA) through voluntary consolidation. They plan to revisit the issue of municipalization during the next election cycle.
On Friday, July 10, 2026, during an auction organized by the capital city’s municipality, land parcels were sold for a total of 59 million lei.
Attacks on Ukraine’s port infrastructure are hampering grain exports. The situation could worsen in the fall, when the new harvest hits the market.
According to the National Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management (INHGA), over the next week, the flow rate of the Danube at the Baziash section will drop to 1,850 cubic meters per second, which is significantly below the long-term annual average for July (4,700 cubic meters per second).
