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At a meeting that was not announced in advance, the Reformist bloc and GERB have come one step closer to а coalition agreement, according to a statement of Rumyana Bachvarova from Bulgaria's biggest party.

Тhe meeting was attended by the leaders of the five main parties in the Reformist bloc and GERB's leader Boyko Borisov.

Serbian Foreign Minister and Socialist Party leader Ivica Dacic has annoyed his senior coalition partners by suggesting that Kosovo should be partitioned into ethnic Serbian and Albanian areas.

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Boyko Borisov, whose centre-right GERB party came top in the recent general election, is ready to give ministerial posts to other parties in exchange for their support, he said in an interview.

Borisov told the Pressa daily that he was willing to make compromises in exchange for support for his government, but would not accept conditions for posts.

All votes have been processed as of 6.30 PM on Monday, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) announced a day after Bulgaria's early elections were held.

Results show GERB leads with 32.67%. Second comes the Socialist party (BSP) with 15.40%, followed by the DPS - 14.84% - and the Reformist bloc - 8.89%.

Right-wing party wins in Bulgarian election

SOFIA -- Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, who leads a right-wing party, said he is willing to take on any risk to form a government.

Borisov's statement came after the first results of Sunday's parliamentary election showed that his GERB party had claimed victory.

A total of 87.329% of the votes have been processed as of 7.45 a.m. Monday.

The results are the following: GERB leads with 32.61%. Second comes the Socialist party (BSP) with 15.27%, followed by DPS - 14.96%, Reformist bloc - 8.87%.

The Patriotic Front has so far received 7.32% of the votes, Bulgaria without Censorship gets 5.58%, Ataka - 4.56%, and ABV - 4.18%.

Former socialist party leader and current MEP Sergey Stanishev will not be tried over the seven secret documents he allegedly lost while he was Prime Minister, magistrates say.

The reason is that Stanishev enjoys immunity as member of the European Parliament.

Albania is hoping to tap Chinese money for an important and costly highway to Macedonia, Albanian and Chinese media reported on Wednesday after Albania Prime Minister Edi Rama met Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang at an economic forum in Tianjin.

Government officials on Monday defended the decision by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to herald tax breaks at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) over the weekend as the first tangible move toward offering relief after years of austerity and indicated that the pledges could be supported by the budget.

The far-right National Front is at the "gates of power" in France, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday in a stark assessment of the crisis embroiling the country's centre-left government.