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Bulgaria Scraps Turkish Foot-And-Mouth Fence Plan


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Posted 18 April 2012 - 03:39 PM

Bulgaria's government said Wednesday it had scrapped plans for a barbed-wire fence along its border with Turkey that had been intended to prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease among animals.

The government in Sofia cited "financial reasons" for the decision after the initial estimate for the cost of the proposed 210-kilometre (130-mile) barrier quadrupled to 28 million leva (14.3 million euros, $18.7 million)....
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