The handshake is soft, the smile is very behavior. It is usually not pleasant for any of the pages involved, to serve as a showcase project for social support. But the young family in rural Micăuți, a good half an hour drive northeast of the Moldovian capital of Chișinău, is proud of their new isolation and taut with the continuation of the conversation, listens carefully how the EU project manager lead journalists through numbers, data and facts of the project. “It is an insane relief. Last winter we paid 300 euros a month for heating with gas, although we also heated with wood. But the wood has also become expensive,” explains Tudor. The minimum income in the Eastern European country is almost 270 euros, the gross average salary recently stagnated at 750 euros.
