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Talat Xhaferi says that Macedonian President Djordje Ivanov "has a deadline of ten days" to give the parliamentary majority the mandate to form a government.

There is an 8 km long column of trucks at Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, the press office of the Directorate General of Border Police announced.

At Lesovo border checkpoint, the queue of trucks is 1 km long. Traffic through the Bulgarian-Greek, Bulgarian-Serbian, Bulgarian-Macedonian and Bulgarian-Romanian border is normal.

Macedonian police late on Thursday cleared the building of the country's Assembly after incidents and violence that happened there earlier in the evening.

Officers were posted in front of all entrances, while metal barriers were set up around the Assembly, the agency MIA reported.

A 3km long queue of cargo vehicles formed at the exit of Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint, while at Dunav Most - Vidin border checkpoint the queue was 2km, the press centre of Chief Directorate Border Police announced.

The information about traffic on Bulgarian border checkpoints is by 06:00 Bulgarian time.

The testimonies of the ethnic Albanian defendants accused of participating in a two-day shootout with Macedonian security forces in Kumanovo in 2015 are expected to shed new light on the high-profile case.

Outgoing Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva presented the logo of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2018.

The author of the logo is Todor Angeliev. The logo includes three elements - the Cyrillic alphabet, the traditional Bulgarian embroidery and the Bulgarian flag.

There is intense traffic at the Bulgarian-Turkish border at the border cross checkpoint Kapitan Andreevo, announced Border Police.

The situation is even worse at the Bulgarian-Romanian border. At the exit of border cross checkpoint Danube Bridge Vidin, there is a 4-km queue of cargo trucks.

The ban on Serbian music in the neighbouring Republic of Macedonia entered into force on Friday night.

Serbian music may not be played on local radios and TV stations. All Macedonian TV channels and radios observe the ban and, besides global music hits, they play Croatian, Bulgarian, Bosnian and Albanian music.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has said his Macedonian counterpart Emil Dimitriev assured him there would be a response from authorities to the desecration of a memorial plaque allegedly committed by a Macedonian journalist.

"I don't want to comment," he has told reporters after a summit in Vienna.

BITOLA - A closure of European borders is unacceptable if the borders of Balkan states that are outside the EU are to remain open, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said Friday in a comment on the migrant crisis.