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The Information and Security Service (ISS) is planning to procure and install modular huts in Vadul-lui-Voda.
Every tenth household in Moldova does not have access to drinking water and almost a quarter does not have access to a proper sewerage system. The Government plans to ensure that by 2030 at least 95% of the population has access to safe water supply and at least 65% to sewerage services.
The financial incentives offered by the government to implement administrative-territorial reform are necessary, but not sufficient. Equally important is the impact it will have on local autonomy and community representation.
District chairpersons understand the need for local governance reform, but their views on the administrative structure proposed by the authorities differ.
On April 10, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a resolution, which supplemented the list of international checkpoints across the Ukrainian-Moldovan state border with the automobile checkpoint “Yampol – Coseuti”.
As part of the administrative-territorial reform, the authorities promise to revise the distribution of VAT and personal income tax.
A direct railroad route will connect Kiev and Chisinau International Airport. This was announced on Saturday, April 11, by Ukraine’s state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia.
On Easter night public transport of the capital will work on a special schedule, and after midnight travel for passengers will be free.
Administrative-territorial reform should be streamlined as part of a large-scale fiscal decentralization reform, economists at the Expert-Grup think tank recommend.
The Government is preparing a decision on the transfer of a plot of land for the construction of the national road R1 Chisinau-Ungheni – border with Romania (sector Zagarancea – border).
Parliament passed the first reading of a draft law on amendments to some normative acts (“improving the mechanism of voluntary unification of administrative-territorial units”). It will allow decisions on the unification of mayoralties to be made by a simple majority of votes of local councilors instead of two-thirds as it is now.
In March, the government allocated more than 87 million lei through the National Fund for Regional and Local Development (FNDRL) for the implementation of the programs “European Village” (II edition) and “Europe Nearby”. The total volume of investments amounted to 65.24 million lei.
At least 3,000 people should live in a village, and the government plans to keep 10 out of 32 districts. At the same time, the package of financial incentives for the unification of mayoralties will amount to 6,491 billion lei.
The city authorities opened Friendship Alley in the capital’s Cathedral Square on the weekend ahead of the Easter holidays.
In accordance with the current regulatory framework, as well as the “almost twofold increase in the price of fuel”, the fare for public transportation in the capital has been adjusted. From May 1, it will amount to 7 lei, according to the website of the mayor’s office.
The rates of fees in Chisinau municipality were indexed by 4.7% this year. They will be applied from January 1, 2026.
During five years (period from 2026-2030), the WB project for the protection of the Dniester ecosystem will be implemented in Moldova. It is aimed at reforestation, as well as wetland and soil conservation.
Moldova occupies a unique place in European economic geography – and not a place to be proud of. The country is both peripheral to Western Europe and a donor of human capital to countries that are themselves peripheral. This is not a rhetorical exaggeration – it is a structural diagnosis that follows from a body of theoretical and empirical work on regional development, institutions and spatial economics. This article is an attempt to synthesize these works in relation to the Moldovan reality – without illusions, but also without hopelessness.
The Congress of Local Authorities of Moldova (CALM) issued a negative opinion on the draft amendments concerning the voluntary unification of administrative-territorial units (ATU).
The process of voluntary unification of mayoralties will become simpler, more flexible and more adapted to the needs of communities. Amendments to the current mechanism were approved today by the Cabinet of Ministers.
