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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9471
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/libya

EU hopes for repatriation of Bulgarian medical staff

Brussels, 18/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - The decision made on Tuesday evening by the Libyan High Judicial Council to commute the death sentence given to five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor (a naturalised Bulgarian citizen) to life imprisonment is “a first relief” for Commission President José Manuel Barroso and the External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who now hope to see the prisoners returned to European soil “as soon as possible”. “We will now study...

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