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UK Permanent Reprsentative to EU Resigns Suddenly

The permanent representative of the UK to the EU Ivan Rogers has resigned suddenly just a few months before Prime Minister Theresa May launches the negotiations for the exit of the country from the EU.

According to Financial Times, Rogers informed embassy staff on Tuesday afternoon that he is leaving his post. He did not specify any reasons for this decision.

Infrastructure key to Britain's first post-Brexit budget: Gov't

Britain's first post-Brexit budget will focus on infrastructure and could spell an end to the previous government's rigid fiscal targets, according to a treasury statement released on Nov. 20.

The budget will be new finance minister Philip Hammond's first set-piece since replacing George Osborne who resigned following the June vote.

Bulgaria to Have 146-km Wire Fence along Border with Turkey in 2 Months

In about two months Bulgaria will have a wire fence built along 146 km of the country's border with Turkey, preventing illegal migration flow, Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova has said.

Bachvarova, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev on Saturday inspected the entire length of the fence built so far along Bulgaria's border with Turkey. 

 

British PM Cameron calls Nigeria and Afghanistan ‘fantastically corrupt’

Prime Minister David Cameron has been overheard describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” in a conversation with the Queen.

In comments that were caught by a microphone during a reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday, he said Nigeria and Afghanistan were two of the most corrupt countries in the world, as the Guardian reports.

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