10 Questions For Ivailo Kalfin

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Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Ivailo Kalfin

Bulgaria's entry into the European Union on Jan. 1 should have been one of its finest moments. But for Foreign Minister and Deputy PM Ivailo Kalfin, that glory has been overshadowed by crisis. Two weeks earlier, five Bulgarian nurses were sentenced to death in Libya for deliberately infecting children with HIV, a charge widely believed to be groundless. Kalfin discussed Bulgaria's highs and lows with Time's Violeta Simeonova Stanicic in Sofia.

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