News about Chisinau
Road works on Burebista Street in the Botanica sector of the capital started on Sunday night. The reconstruction is planned on the section between Dacia Boulevard and Sarmizegetus Street. It is part of the municipal road infrastructure rehabilitation program.
The Chisinau City Hall announced the first municipal Festival of Traditions. It will take place on May 24, 2026 from 12:00 on the pedestrian street “Eugeni Doga” in the center of the capital.
There are ten youth centers and a municipal business incubator in Chisinau municipality. For their functioning, the capital authorities allocate 60 million lei annually in the municipal budget. According to the Mayor’s Office, this amount has increased thirty times in the last few years.
The meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe ended on Friday in Chisinau. The European leaders’ agenda centered, among other things, on migration management issues. Among the decisions, the adoption of a new interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, which could facilitate the expulsion of migrants, stood out.
A trip to children’s day summer camps will cost parents 594 lei, i.e. 20% of its total cost, while the rest of the money is covered from the municipal budget.
The Chisinau municipality signed an Action Plan for 2026-2027 on the prevention of the use of harmful and psychotropic substances. It includes the creation of a special commission for monitoring and combating this phenomenon.
On this occasion, central and city authorities are preparing a series of festive events for children and their parents.
According to the capital’s general mayor Ion Ceban, a tender for the reconstruction of the Chisinau City Administration building has been announced.
The process of merging the mayoralties does not affect the status of Chisinau. This clarification was made by Alexei Buzu, Secretary General of the Government. The statement was made in response to the assumptions of the mayor of Chisinau, Ion Ceban, about possible changes in the boundaries of the municipality, voiced yesterday during a meeting of municipal services.
Moldexpo IEC announced an auction for the lease of several plots of the former “Aventura Park” zone on the territory of the center in order to attract investments in sports and entertainment infrastructure.
Today, the “Open Urban Development Program” was officially launched in the city of Vadul lui Voda. The program includes the construction of a modern water intake station on the Dniester River.
The municipal enterprise “Combinat of ritual services” operates ten cemeteries with the area of 160 hectares. At the same time, the problem of lack of free places in cemeteries remains acute.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the city authorities have envisaged special measures for citizens during the Radonitsa period. Chisinau City Hall informs that during April 19-20, temporary parking spaces will be available for visitors near the cemetery “St. Lazar”.
Municipal services have become more active for the Easter holidays. The Association for the Management of Green Plants approved 12 projects to improve parks, squares and green areas in Chisinau and neighboring settlements.
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.
The Agency of Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre announces the launch of two public procurement procedures for the development of real estate information systems – a price register and a database.
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 parliamentary majority presented a draft Code on the Organization and Functioning of Parliament. In addition to limiting the time of debate in plenary sessions, it enshrines the right of parliament to suspend the activities of local authorities.
