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Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo has confirmed she will officially block the final statement at the end of the EU summit in Brussels.

This will happen because of the reelection of Donald Tusk on Thursday as head of the European Council - despite Warsaw's opposition.

Donald Tusk was re-elected in Brussels for President of the European Council despite the objections of his country. This was announced on March, 09, according to Deutsche Welle.

The Bulgarian government has decided to support the reelection of Donald Tusk as Euripean Council President for another term.

The decision, announced after a cabinet meeting, comes against the backdrop of resistance from authorities in Warsaw against his possible second tenure.

Former Bulgarian Ambassador Elena Poptodorova on Monday sent a statement to Bulgarian media outlets saying she had not been prepared for the "disinformation scandal" her name got involved into last week.

Former Bulgarian Ambassador to the US Elena Poptodorova has resigned as head of the American Jewish Committee's office in Warsaw, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Elena Poptodorova, who on Tuesday was detained at the airport in Warsaw with unpaid cosmetics from a duty-free shop, denied having stolen the goods.

The Bulgarian News Agency quotes Poptodorova as saying she had received a call from her sick mother and went out of the shop to accept it there with the cosmetics in her hands.

The former Bulgarian Ambassador to the United States has been detained at the airport in Warsaw for stealing cosmetics in a duty-free shop, according to Russian agency RIA Novosti.

Citing Polish radio EMF, the agency reports the goods concerned were worth the equivalent of nearly USD 400.

The head of EU border agency Frontex on Feb. 27 criticized charities that rescue migrants off Libya, arguing that they encourage the traffickers who profit from the dangerous Mediterranean crossings.

The terror problem stemming from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) would be entirely resolved in the event that Turkey-backed moderate groups would be supported logistically instead of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), a senior government official has said, criticizing the international community for recognizing the Syrian Kurdish group as the sole "land force" figh

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has dismissed claims made on Monday by Boyko Borissov, - the former prime minister and leader of the centre-right GERB party - that the country's interim government had damaged the national interest by agreeing to allow more NATO forces in the Black Sea.