News about Infrastructure

Moldovan President Maia Sandu compared the reform of the local public administration to a long-standing popular tradition of mutual assistance – “claca”. The head of state said that historically, in our villages, big things were done together, through mutual assistance, and this reform is, in fact, a “claka” between villages.

Germany and the Netherlands will establish a joint tactical headquarters in the Baltic States this year to command forces on NATO’s eastern flank.

A drone hit a residential high-rise building in the eastern Romanian city of Galati, the Inspectorate for Emergency Situations said. The impact caused an explosion. A fire started in one of the apartments. According to preliminary information, two people were injured. About 70 residents were evacuated from the building, some of them left the building on their own.

The Pulmonology Department of the Pediatric Clinic of the Institute of Mother and Child was completely renovated within a modernization project worth more than 5 million lei. The new infrastructure will ensure European treatment conditions for young patients and an optimal working environment for the medical staff.

Profit of Transelectrica (Romania) increased by 27% in the first quarter. Extraordinary sources of income included funds received from assistance to victims of natural disasters in the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.

Moldova will have emergency stocks of petroleum products sufficient to cover domestic consumption for 61 days or equivalent to at least 90 days of net imports, depending on the higher figure.

Yesterday’s protest action of farmers, which according to the “Forța Fermierilor” association gathered about one and a half hundred in front of the government building in Chisinau, did not go unnoticed by the authorities.

Today, May 28 in Astana, President of Kazakhstan Kasym-Jomart Tokayev and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived in Kazakhstan on a state visit, signed a joint statement “On the seven foundations of friendship and good-neighborliness of the peoples of Kazakhstan and Russia”.

The Leova City Administration is preparing to issue municipal bonds for a total amount of 9 million lei, intended to finance projects for the reconstruction of the urban environment and infrastructure development of public spaces in the central district of the city.

The education sector has become the scene of a fierce political confrontation between local and central authorities. Chisinau Mayor General Ion Ceban accuses the leadership of the country’s intention to deprive the capital of 330 million lei in just one year. In response, Education Minister Dan Perciun says the reform is vital to the system and reproaches the Chisinau mayor’s office for leaving more than a billion lei unspent over the past six years. The conflict continued in parliament.

The expenses caused by heavy rains and floods in Calarasi, Straseni, Ungheni and Criuleni districts will be covered from the budgets of local authorities. The government will be involved only where the damage cannot be covered locally. At the same time, the central authorities have assumed the liquidation of damages to the infrastructure of national importance.

Details of the reform of the education system have emerged. It involves the transfer of education departments and, consequently, schools from local authorities to the direct subordination of the Ministry of Education and Research. In this context, the government proposes to reduce the share of personal income tax that remains in the budgets of Chisinau and Balti municipalities from 50% to 45% of the amount collected.

A group of the world’s leading central banks and more than 40 major commercial banks are stepping up testing of one of the world’s most closely watched digital payments projects, Agora, as the race to modernize and dominate the international financial architecture heats up.

The first stage of the project “Energy Efficiency of Kindergartens in Chisinau”, an initiative to modernize the municipal educational infrastructure, will start in 12 kindergartens in the capital.

Soil quality and methods for monitoring changes in soil structure were the main topics of the experience and knowledge sharing workshop organized on 27 May 2026 in the village of Slobozia Duška (Criuleni). The aim of the event was to popularize soil quality monitoring. The event was organized by the National Agency for Land Reclamation together with the National Institute of Applied Research in Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, with the support of MAIA Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry.

Patients and medical staff of 10 medical institutions in Chisinau and Balti will benefit from improved conditions and energy efficiency of buildings. Today the Government approved the signing of a grant agreement between the Republic of Moldova, the European Investment Bank and the Joint Unit for the Implementation and Monitoring of Energy Projects for the implementation of the project “Energy Efficiency in the Republic of Moldova”.

The Chisinau City Hall announced the launch of a tender for the reconstruction and creation of the “Eugen Doga” Center.

The energy exchange OPEM (Operator of the Moldovan Energy Market) has been operating in Moldova since December 2025, but liquidity remains almost nil.

The European Commission has unveiled the ‘One Trip, One Ticket’ initiative, which could significantly change rail travel across Europe by removing one of the key problems for passengers – the need to buy tickets from different operators for the same route.

The Government approved the draft law on ratification of the Agreement on credit support and grant for the implementation of the Integrated Agricultural and Irrigation Development Program (iDRIP) project.