​Romanian newspapers on Thursday are outraged at the situation caused by a government decision to force people who earn money from copyright pay more contributions to the state, while it applied a very short deadline for the first such payment and did not provide the bureaucratic means for the effort. Also in the paper today: the fate of a TV channel apparently put on sale by its Turkish owners, a new twist in the Bucharest maternity ward fire case, and the situation of Rroma people sent back to Romania from France.

Several hundred thousands of Romanians - artists and journalists among others - have to stand in hours-long queues these days to fill in a series of statements on their income from copyright or other non-employment sources of revenue. That comes as the government has decided that by August 25 this year all of them have to submit these statements and, according to them, pay contributions to the health, unemployment and pensions funds or risk paying hefty fines. But authorities have not provided the bureaucratic means for that, and confusion reigns supreme among people who want to pay their dues to the state.

The situation sparked outrage in today's papers. Evenimentul Zilei reads that the documentation people have to fill in are nightmares for taxpayers, as they include sections which try their knowledge at economy: among others, what is the average salary in Romania or the gross average salary used to support the state welfare budget. And not only journalists - but many actors, painters, poets and other artists are asked such questions.

Adevarul blames the whole situation on Labor minister Mihai Seitan and finance minister Sebastian Vladescu. The paper reads that beneficiaries of income from independent activities relived the nightmare of queues of the communist era - when everybody had to stand in line for everythin