Bulgaria's parliament on Thursday voted to approve a conservatives-led coalition government, formed in a bid to end the EU nation's prolonged political crisis. "After four years of political crisis in Bulgaria, some government just had to be formed," he said, adding that this does not mean that the political crisis is over. ros-ds/jza/yad
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