Roads in the Republic of Moldova show serious quality problems and largely fail to meet European standards, according to a European Commission report on the TEN-T transport network.
Moldova’s TEN-T network spans nearly 900 kilometers, but almost all of these roads are standard single-carriageway routes with one lane in each direction. The country has no motorways, and express roads account for less than 2 percent of the core network.
The only exception is a section of the Chisinau ring road, where authorities opened the country’s first express road that meets European requirements. Aside from this segment, the rest of the network does not comply with TEN-T standards.
The report presents alarming data. Only 9 percent of main roads are in good condition, more than 53 percent are in poor condition, and nearly 38 percent are in fair condition. Conditions on secondary roads within the TEN-T network are slightly better, but more than 60 percent of them remain in poor condition.
Overall, nearly six out of ten kilometers of TEN-T roads in Moldova are degraded, and the situation has worsened compared to last year. The report also shows that only about 13 percent of TEN-T roads meet European standards, while the share for main roads falls below 2 percent.
In addition, the European Commission could not complete the full assessment for 2025 because Moldovan authorities did not provide all the required data.