Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has reshuffled his six month-old government after his foreign minister failed a confirmation hearing as EU commissioner-designate, raising doubts about the skills and knowledge of the centre-right reformist cabinet.
Mr Borisov, a karate black belt and former bodyguard, rose to the top of Bulgarian politics due to the failure of his predecessors, a Socialist-led coalition including Liberals and a Turkish ethnic party, to tackle the country's chroni...
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