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Construction of fence at Bulgaria-Turkey border completed: Tsvetan Tsvetanov

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The construction of the fence at the Bulgaria-Turkey border has been completed, GERB Deputy Chairman and leader of that party’s Parliamentary group Tsvetan Tsvetanov told the Bulgarian National Television on Sunday. Its total length is 201 kilometers. The border fence in only one of the multiple measures taken by the Bulgarian authorities to protect adequately the Bulgaria-Turkey border which is also an external border of the European Union, Tsvetan Tsvetanov went on to say. “The opposition claims that even a single Euro has not been absorbed out of all EUR 160 million allotted by the EU, but  contracts to the tune of over EUR 33 million have been already signed. Moreover, I am confedent that another EUR 70 million will be absorbed in the coming months”, Tsvetan Tsvetanov also said.




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