The Prime Minister Kiril Petkov

Kiril Petkov Petkov was born in 1980. He is one of the founders of the Center for Economic Affairs and was ousted by a no-confidence vote threatening an agreement to lift the veto on Northern Macedonia's EU accession talks, the Financial Times reported.

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The Bulgarian government was ousted by a no-confidence vote, which plunges the country into new political chaos and dashes hopes for progress in the stalled EU enlargement process to the Western Balkans.

Bulgarian lawmakers voted 123 to 116 to oust Prime Minister Kiril Petkov

Kiril Petkov Petkov was born in 1980. He is one of the founders of the Center for Economic Affairs, a reformer who promised to fight corruption and took a firm stand against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the publication notes.

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The newspaper points out that Petkov was ousted after a dispute over a plan to lift Bulgaria's veto on starting talks on Northern Macedonia's EU accession, as well as over budget disagreements.

Now the country is probably on its way to its fourth parliamentary elections since April last year.

The no-confidence vote is also a blow to European leaders gathering in Brussels today to try to revive the accession process to the Western Balkans, the paper said.

Earlier yesterday, Bulgaria's largest opposition party said it would support lifting the veto on northern Macedonia's EU talks.

Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov

Boyko Metodiev Borisov is the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria. He was born on June 13, 1959. He said that his center-right party GERB

GERB is a center-right populist, conservative and pro-European political party that will vote "yes", although it initially vetoed a dispute three years ago over Skopje's interpretation of Balkan history.

Despite the abrupt change GERB

GERB is a center-right populist, conservative and pro-European political party and has not given up a vote of no confidence in the government.

Petkov's allies suspected that changing Borissov's position on Northern Macedonia's EU membership - Skopje's entry into the union remains unpopular in Bulgaria - is a political trap, the Financial Times reported.

European officials fear that a slowdown in EU enlargement could lead to political instability in the Western Balkans and frustration over Brussels' support for the region's Western orientation, which Russia could take advantage of.

Petkov backed European sanctions against Moscow and fired his defense minister after he refused to call the Russian invasion a "war," the paper said.

Revoking the veto on talks with northern Macedonia would also unblock talks with Albania, as the EU considers the two countries' membership bids together, the paper added.

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