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Romania registered the fewest employees aged 15 to 64 employed under a temporary contract in the European Union (1.4%), while Spain (26.1%) and Poland (27.5%) were at the opposite end of the scale, according to Eurostat.

The tax for the Romanian simple temporary passport was increased Monday by RON16 (EUR1=RON4.1054), reaching RON112, since the cost for the issue of the document was hiked from RON64.2 to RON80, added with a RON32 consular tax.

Romanian former General Mihai Chitac, sentenced to a 15-year prison term for the events in western city Timisoara in 1989, considered the precursors of the Romanian anti-communist revolution, was released Monday from jail in order to undergo surgery.

The European Commission authorized Friday, in accordance with EU norms on state aid, an aid program proposed by Romania to support, with up to EUR500,000, companies hit by the crisis.