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Some 1000 participants joined the so-called Lukov March, a procession deemed to be neo-Nazi, whose organizers defend it as patriotic.

Asked to comment on the growing public discontent over cases of police brutality in Bulgaria, Kalin Georgiev, Chief Secretary of the Interior Minister has claimed that police officers are executing their duties in accordance with the law.

Over 80 Sofia-based judges have urged the Supreme Judicial Council (VSS) to come up with a proper institutional response to the occasional accusations of Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov against the judiciary.

The European Parliament is to hold a debate on March 13 2012 about the website started by Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party that invites Dutch people to complain about immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe.

Bulgaria became the fourth European Union member state to halt the ratification of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on February 15, only days after thousands of Bulgarians braved freezing weather to show their opposition to the treaty.

The Syrian people must feel the real support of the international community and be given protection, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov said on February 17 2012, reacting to the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution on Syria.