Bulgaria's three main political parties have finally agreed to form a coalition ending a seven-week standoff that threatened to disrupt its planned membership of the EU at the beginning of 2007.
Socialist leader Sergey Stanishev will be the new prime minister, taking over from the ex-king, Simeon Saxe-Coburg.
Mr Saxe-Coburg's National Movement (NMS) was beaten in the June elections by the socialists, which got 31% of the vote.
The liberal, mainly ethnic-Turkish Rights and F...
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