Wiretap Scandal Injects New Uncertainty in EU Skeptic Bulgaria

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SOFIA — Secret recordings, investigations into one of the EU’s longest-serving leaders, a spat between prosecutors, protests — all the ingredients for a sizzling political Balkan drama. The years-long crisis in Bulgaria reached a new peak in recent weeks, exposing the bloc’s political vulnerability less than 300 miles away from the fighting in Ukraine.