SOFIA: Bulgaria's Socialist-backed government is under severe pressure to resign after just two weeks in office following several days of demonstrations in the EU's poorest country.

The latest protests began on Friday when Delyan Peevski, an inexperienced but well-connected 32-year-old media mogul, was named head of the powerful state agency for national security DANS.

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