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The monthly fee set for a parking spot in Bucharest has grown this year, compared to 2008, by 33%, to $205, thus topping similar fees in Berlin, Lisbon or Warsaw, but remaining below the ones in Sofia and Budapest, according to real estate services company Colliers International.

Bucharest City Hall announced it will begin Monday to take over the over 3,000 parking spots managed by Dalli Exim, since the company was notified, one month ago, that the contract signed with the mayoralty in this respect in 1995 was terminated.

The number of Romanian children with ages between 3 and 7 and who could register in kindergartens in school year 2008/2009 is higher by 200,000 compared to the number of kindergarten vacancies on a national level, according to education minister Cristian Adomnitei.