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Europe Briefing

The contender - Bulgaria

Preface

Boyko Borisov, mayor of Sofia, is wearing jeans, a Calvin Klein T-shirt and a leather jacket. He has just come back from a ball in Vienna, which he attended with his girlfriend Tsvetelina Borislavova, a senior figure at one of Bulgaria's biggest banks. He is one of the most powerful men in the country, but he insists: "There's nothing good about it. It's just responsibility and hard work."



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